Till the poor lad, like boy that's flogg❜d unduly, In the round world was not the match of Pat. XXI. The Sultaun saw him on a holiday, Which is with Paddy still a jolly day : When mass is ended, and his load of sins Confess'd, and Mother Church hath from her binns Dealt forth a bonus of imputed merit, Then is Pat's time for fancy, whim, and spirit! To jest, to sing, to caper fair and free, And dance as light as leaf upon the tree. "By Mahomet," said Sultaun Solimaun, XXII. Shilela their plan was well nigh after baulking, Up-bubboo! Paddy had nota shirt to his back!!! EPILOGUE ΤΟ THE APPEAL, SPOKEN BY MRS H. SIDDONS. A CAT of yore (or else old Æsop lied) His neck from Hymen's mystic knot made loose, Since the New Jail became our next door neighbour.* It is necessary to mention, that the allusions in this piece are all local, and addressed only to the Edinburgh audience. The new prisons of the city, on the Calton Hill, are not far from the Theatre. Yes, times are changed, for in your fathers' age The lawyers were the patrons of the stage; However high advanced by future fate, There stands the bench (points to the Pit) that first receiv'd their weight. The future legal sage, 'twas ours to see, Doom though unwigg'd, and plead without a fee. But now astounding each poor mimic elf, Instead of lawyers comes the Law herself; Tremendous neighbour, on our right she dwells, Builds high her towers and excavates her cells; While on the left, she agitates the town With the tempestuous question, Up or down ?* * At this time the public of Edinburgh was much agitated by a law-suit betwixt the magistrates and many of the inhabitants of the city, concerning the range of new buildings on the western side of the North Bridge; which the latter insisted should be removed as a deformity. 12 'Twixt Scylla and Charybdis thus stand we, Law's final end and law's uncertainty. But soft! who lives at Rome the Pope must flatter, END OF VOLUME TENTH. Printed by James Ballantyne and Company.. |