With a slight sarcastic leer.
T'S a long time, Sir, I assure you, since
I endeavoured, to so combine,
My games of spoof, for the human soul,
In the bartering oofftish line.
I suffered by many a measly cheat,
When mortals made those sales,
You'll read of their shuffling knavish tricks,
Thro' the mediæval tales,