The Comic Almanack, Volume 2 / 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

The "good old times" are past, my boys,

The "good old times" are past,

When the walls of Temple Bar were spread

With many a "traitor's" rotting head,

In the "good times" past.

Then for forty shillings men were hung,

And the thirst for blood grew stronger

Man's life was valued then at a sheep's—

Thank God, that lasts no longer!