. Gallery of comicalities : . pell-mell : A scene of frolic, row, and danger, Where honesty is ofi a stranger ; For doubtful are the chances now Of triumph to the best mans brow. With equal grief and shame we tell it, Tis How much do ye ax to sell it ? O, for the fighting days of old, When men were neither bought nor sold ; When victory was the aim alone, And fighting crosses all unknown. Amid the rabble monkey crew, See Pug, our hero, full in view — His brain with bruising science stored. Up to each move upon the board ; How fluently he prates of flooring,Tapping the claret, fibbing, boring—
. Gallery of comicalities : . pell-mell : A scene of frolic, row, and danger, Where honesty is ofi a stranger ; For doubtful are the chances now Of triumph to the best mans brow. With equal grief and shame we tell it, Tis How much do ye ax to sell it ? O, for the fighting days of old, When men were neither bought nor sold ; When victory was the aim alone, And fighting crosses all unknown. Amid the rabble monkey crew, See Pug, our hero, full in view — His brain with bruising science stored. Up to each move upon the board ; How fluently he prates of flooring,Tapping the claret, fibbing, boring— Of Chancery-suits and body-battering. Ogles sewd up, and ivories chattering. Eager to bet—a Sharper now Has got our hopeful Sprig in tow— Though Mentor, to his pupil true, Hints pretty plainly its a do. Ill book my man to win for sartin— Come, three to one on Bill, at starting ? Though Bill is certainly the strongest. Perhaps Jacks wind may last the longest. 142 2 o GALLERY OF COMICALITIES.—No. CXXXIX. MONKEYAN THE GAMBLERS PROGRESS. — STEP THE FIFJH. Hurrah for Epsom ! Mount your prads, And start away, like knowing lads, To join the swarms of smihng faces That throng delighted to the races. O, what a scene of joy and jolity, Of prancing, capering,, and frivolity ! Where many a swell whose means are scanty, Bestrides his balterd Rosinante — Which, proud of such illustrious backers, Hails a short respite from the knackers. Go it ! my heroes ! man or monkey Mounted on blood, or hack, or donkey. Know many a youth, of spirit gay, Shall rue the racing of this day. And, mourning loss of cash and leather, Curse Oaks and Derby Stakes together. Where all the springs of fashion gay. Can Master Pug be absent ? No. Still under Mentors kind protection. He presses forward to perfection — With the top Coves can prate with spirit Of all their racers and their merit; Their action, colour, age, and bottom, Where they were foald, and who begotem : Can bet and hedge, make sur
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