Mirth and Metre consisting of Poems, Serious, Humorous, and Satirical; Songs, Sonnets, Ballads & Bagatelles. Written by C. Dibdin, Jun |
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Drury-lane is the place for a tragedy play,
Where so nat'ral as life they do kill and do slay;
The little Haymarket comes next in the pack,
Where to finger the cash they've got Three-finger'd Jack;
And then Covent-Garden was ev'ry night full,
For, dang it, who wouldn't stand up for John Bull?
Spoken.
Where so nat'ral as life they do kill and do slay;
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Where to finger the cash they've got Three-finger'd Jack;
And then Covent-Garden was ev'ry night full,
For, dang it, who wouldn't stand up for John Bull?
Spoken.
[They says Bonaparte will come, but if he does, John Bull and his family knows how to give him the—
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