I've heard the County Council, for the City weal is rife,

I'd hold it as a favor, if thou'ds't intimate that life

Is perilled on that lobby, and suggest in thy report,

That lifts would be more suitable, than stairs in Hampton Court.

Then with a comprehensive wail of anguish at his fate,

He gradually vanished thro' the grating of a gate,

And left me sorely puzzled, in a sad reflective state,

Then up a creeping tree, and spout, with stern resolve of hate

Compressed within my breast for Bouncer's evil ghost I clomb,