But stops that he may lodge the coin

Safe in the old man’s hat: nor quits him so,

But as he goes towards him turns a look

Sidelong and half-reverted.…


1800

ANDREW JONES

Composed 1800.—Published 1800

Andrew Jones was included in the “Lyrical Ballads” of 1800, 1802, 1805, and in the Poems of 1815. It was also printed in The Morning Post, February 10, 1801. It was not republished after 1815. With this poem compare The Old Cumberland Beggar.—Ed.

I hate that Andrew Jones; he’ll breed