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For his politics, too, they were thoroughly known,

A patriot he was to the very back-bone;

he gratis had ſhav’d for the good of the nation.

And he held the Whig Chib in profound veneration.

For his tenets religious—he could well expound

Emanuel Swedenborg’s myft’ries profound,

And new doctrines could broach with the belt of ’em all:

For a perriwig-maker ne’er wanted a.

Indignant ſhe anſwered: “No chin-ſcraping ſot

“Shall be faſten’d to me by the conjugal knot.

“No!—to Tyburn repair, if a nooſe you mult tie:

“Other fiſh I have got, Mr. Tonfor, to fry.

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"Holbern Bridge and Black Friars my triumphs can tell,

“From Billingſgate beauties I’ve long borne the bell:

“Nay, tripemen and fiſhmongers vie for my favour—

“Then d’ye think I’ll take up with a two-penny ſhaver?

“Let dory, or turbot the fov’reign of fiſh,

"Cheek by jowl with red herring be ferv’d in one diſh;

“Let ſturgeon and ſprats in one pickle unite,

"When I angle for huſbands, and barbers ſhall bite."