To be spoken in the character of Tony Lumpkin + 

Well, now all’s ended, and my comrades gone, + 

Pray what becomes of mother’s only son? + 

A hopeful blade!⁠—in town I’ll fix my station, + 

And try to make a bluster in the nation. + 

As for my cousin Neville, I renounce her. + 

Off, in a crack, I’ll carry big Bet Bouncer. + 

Why should not I in the great world appear? + 

I soon shall have a thousand pounds a year; + 

No matter what a man may here inherit, + 

In London⁠—gad, they’ve some regard to spirit + 

I see the horses prancing up the streets. + 

And big Bet Bouncer bobs to all she meets; + 

Then hoiks to jigs and pastimes every night⁠— + 

Not to the plays⁠—they say it ain’t polite: + 

To Sadler’s Wells, perhaps, or operas go. + 

And once, by chance, to the roratorio. + 

Thus, here and there, forever up and down. + 

We’ll set the fashions, too, to half the town; + 

And then at auctions⁠—money ne’er regard⁠— + 

Buy pictures, like the great, ten pounds a yard: + 

Zounds! we shall make these London gentry say, + 

We know what’s damned genteel as well as they! + 