Didyou not but yesterday prostrate upon the ground the young man for that he speak with unrespect of your Vashintone?

[…] the ground […] was already being occupied by the “cheap Jacks,” with their green-covered carts and marvellous assortment of wares; and the booths of more legitimate small traders, with their tempting arrays of fairings and eatables; and penny peep-shows and other shows, containing pink-eyed ladies, and dwarfs, and boa-constrictors, and wild Indians.

to put on an act

And they stood you before the magistrates, like a spalpeen or a tinker. / Sure the French wouldn't bring with them barrels of coppers for the spalpeens of Connaught. It is murder and bloodshed they would bring.