In this street there lived a housemaid, Guilford Street, by Brunsvick Square. Vich her name was Eliza Davis, And she went to fetch the beer: In the street she met a party As was quite surprized to see her. Vich he vas a British Sailor, Presently this Mann accostes "You're so like my Sister Sally, Both in valk and face and size, "I'm a mate on board a wessel, "What's your name, my beauty, tell me;" And she faintly hansers, "Lore, Sir, my name's Eliza Davis, And I live at tventy-four." Hofttimes came this British seaman, And Eliza told her Master (Kinder they than Missuses are), How in marridge he had ast her, Like a galliant Brittish Tar. And he brought his landlady vith him And how she herself had lived in And Eliza listened to them, And she thought that soon their bands Vould be published at the Fondlin, Hand the clergyman jine their ands. And he ast about the lodgers (Vich her master let some rooms), Likevise vere they kep their things, and Vere her master kep his spoons. Hand this vicked Charley Thompson Hout to fetch a pint of beer. Hand while pore Eliza vent to To the lodgers, their apartments, Prigs their boots, and hats, and clothes. Vile the scoundrle Charley Thompson, Lest his wictim should escape, Hocust her vith rum and vater, Like a fiend in huming shape. But a hi was fixt upon 'em Vich these raskles little sore; Namely, Mr. Hide, the landlord Of the house at tventy-four. He vas valkin in his garden, Hup the stairs the landlord tumbled; 66 Something's going wrong," he said; And he caught the vicked voman Underneath the lodgers' bed. And he called a brother Pleaseman, Hup and down in Guilford Street. And that Pleaseman able-bodied And though vicked Charley Thompson Boulted like a miscrant base, Presently another Pleaseman Took him to the self-same place. And this precious pair of raskles Has for poor Eliza Davis, Simple gurl of tventy-four, She, I ope, vill never listen In the streets to sailors moar. But if she must ave a sweet-art (Vich most every gurl expex), Let her take a jolly pleaseman ; Vich his name peraps is-X. SP DAMAGES, TWO HUNDRED POUNDS. PECIAL Jurymen of England! who admire your country's laws, And proclaim a British Jury worthy of the realm's applause; Gaily compliment each other at the issue of a cause Which was tried at Guildford 'sizes this day week as ever was. Unto that august tribunal comes a gentleman in grief (Special was the British Jury, and the Judge, the Baron Chief), Comes a British man and husband-asking of the law relief, For his wife was stolen from him-he'd have vengeance on the thief. Yes, his wife, the blessed treasure with the which his life was crowned, Wickedly was ravished from him by a hypocrite profound. And he comes before twelve Britons, men for sense and truth renowned, To award him for his damage twenty hundred sterling pound. He by counsel and attorney there at Guildford does appear, And though guilty the defendant, wasn't the plaintiff rather queer? |