The Comic Almanack, Volume 1 / An Ephemeris in Jest and Earnest, Containing Merry Tales, Humerous Poetry, Quips, and Oddities

by William Makepeace Thackeray; Gilbert Abbott À Beckett; Henry Mayhew; Horace Mayhew; Albert Smith

29. Rent Day—Landlords' levée.

In cool grot and mossy cell.

Rent Day!—a day when all hearts most are rent

With torture—save, the heart of lusty Dan;

Then gets he that which makes him most content,

Rent from the ragged and rent-breeches man;

Bent upon rent, and all without remorse,

Yet Dublin deems the foul extortion fair,

And swears that, as he's ridden the high Horse