A noble emulation heats your breaſt, / And your own fame now robs you of your reſt.

There's mirth in the barn and the ha', the ha', / There's mirth in the barn and the ha': / There's quaffing and laughing, / And dancing and daffing; / And our young bride's daftest of a', of a', / And our young bride's daftest of a'.

A gongfermor worked during the night cleaning the cities cesspits. The name gongfermor comes from the Saxon word gang meaning to go off, and fermor from fey, to cleanse.

Now then, poppy-head: — this to the conductor of a rival omnibus before us — how long am I to go on sucking the mop?