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 Refer with pride to plodding Brallaghan Whose skill made index for the old Gazettes (I wish he’d tell us those who paid their debts) Australia’s volume in appropriate calf Upset all gravity; as dustman’s laugh The Crystal Palace shook; Britannia gains, And copper medal pays him for his pains——

We’ve demi some flunkey Monday’s book Well known as Friday on the route he took For ever acting the man Friday’s part, To Crusoe Charlie, or in Deass cart—— Whole tiresome pages with the burthen team Of what he is, and what he might have been, Warms o’er his “Punch,” to that delightfull state When cozy gossips can deliberate, Espies a “gent” in Stockmans “tidy feet” Flea cracker, bug destroyer to the suite—— My butcher, baker, farrier, each of whom Courts his fair sweetheart in the maiden’s room,—— My Surgeon, daily asks “my wife” what ails her Monopolized each trade but undertaker—— Shall he thus daub each “pretty wife,” indeed Whom hospitality presents a feed?—— Beware how rinkled rakes rakes approach your gate Your maids and daughters to enumerate, (What matters marriage? in this land ’tis known The married rake walks o’er the course alone) To glean a lying yarn from serving men To pilfer halfpence with their paltry pen, Which, but proclaims the want of whip at schoul