LXXXVI

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LXXXVI

“Counts of the palace, and the state purveyor

Of moth’s-down, to make soft the royal beds,

The Common Council and my fool Lord Mayor

Marching a-row, each other slipshod treads;

Powder’d bag-wigs and ruffy-tuffy heads

Of cinder wenches meet and soil each other;

Toe crush’d with heel ill-natured fighting breeds,

Frill-rumpling elbows brew up many a bother,

And fists in the short ribs keep up the yell and pother.