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MALL titles and orders For Mayors and Recorders
 * I get—and they're highly delighted.

M.P.s baronetted, Sham Colonels gazetted,
 * And second-rate Aldermen knighted.

Foundation-stone laying I find very paying.
 * It adds a large sum to my makings.

At charity dinners The best of speech-spinners,
 * I get ten per cent. on the takings!

I present any lady Whose conduct is shady
 * Or smacking of doubtful propriety;

When Virtue would quash her, I take and whitewash her
 * And launch her in first-rate society.