Scripscrapologia or, Collins's Doggerel Dish Of All Sorts. Consisting of Songs Adapted to familiar Tunes, And which may be sung without the Chaunterpipe of an Italian Warbler, or the ravishing Accompaniments of Tweedle-Dum or Tweedle-Dee. Particularly those which have been most applauded in the author's once popular performance, call'd, The Brush. The Gallimaufry garnished with a variety of comic tales, quaint epigrams, whimsical epitaphs, &c. &c. [by John Collins] |
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THE WELCOME AND UNWELCOME DECISION. |
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THE WELCOME AND UNWELCOME DECISION.
Once a Cockneigh and Yorkist maintain'd a dispute,Whether London or York was of oldest repute;
And the contest kept up, with a clamorous pother,
About “which Lord Mayor took place of the other;”
When a wag, who stood by, took the part of the Tyke,
Saying—London to York, was, in fame, nothing like;
And,—that when their Chief Magistrates met on the road,
Never yet did the First dare the Last in commode:
As the Law of the Land, which binds Lords to obey,
Makes the Lord May'r of London turn out of the way!
At this sage arbitration, so pleas'd was the Hick,
That the Umpire, he swore, was as wise as old Nick!
But the Wag thus reply'd,—“No great Conjuror, I,—
“For without the Black Art, we this knot can untye;
“And, before you exult, hear the reason, I pray,
“Why the Lord May'r of London, for Your's, must break, way:—
“The Former, when pleas'd on a journey to fix,
“From the City sets out, in his Chariot and Six;
“While the Latter, whose state you so boastfully brag on,
“His journey must take in the Yorkshire Stage Waggon;
“Which waggs on, by law, with its dignify'd load,
“Unimpeded, while Chariots turn out of the road!”
Poor Sapskull, thus craftily put to the blush,
Thought, a Badg'ring to 'scape, 'twas the best way to Brush.
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