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A Metrical History of England

Or, Recollections, in Rhyme, Of some of the most prominent Features in our National Chronology, from the Landing of Julius Caesar to the Commencement of the Regency, in 1812. In Two Volumes ... By Thomas Dibdin

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“A curious thing these annals boast,
“No less than a disturbed ghost,
“Which visited Cock-Lane;
“The neighbourhood around were shock'd,
“For oh, at night, it scratch'd and knock'd,
“And knock'd and scratch'd again!”
 

Last Dying Words of the Eighteenth Century.