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 * And in the evening tak'st a double row
 * Of dowdies, for some dance or party drest,

Besides the goods meanwhile thou movest east and west.


 * An inch appears the utmost thou couldst budge ;
 * Yet at the slightest nod, or hint, or sign,
 * Round to the curb-stone patient dost thou trudge,
 * School'd in a beckon, learned in a nudge,
 * A dull-eyed Argus watching for a fare ;
 * Quiet and plodding thou dost bear no grudge
 * To whisking tilburies, or phaetons rare.

Curricles, or mail-coaches, swift beyond compare."


 * And bade the coachman wheel to such a street,
 * Who turning much his body, more his neck,
 * Louted full low, and hoarsely did him greet:
 * "Certes, Monsieur were best take to his feet,
 * Seeing his servant can no further drive
 * For press of coaches, that to-night here meet,
 * Many as bees about a straw-capp'd hive,

When first for April honey into faint flowers they dive."


 * To Hum's hotel; and, as he on did pass
 * With head inclined, each dusky lineament