Since epilogue speaking to me is quite new,
Pray allow me the help of a fiddle or two;
I'm as strange to this job as the Man in the Moon,
But I think if I sing I shall speak to some tune.
Fal de ral.

Now touching this comedy, critics may say
'Tis a trumpery, Bartlemy-fair kind of play;
It smells, 'faith, of Smithfield, we all must allow,
For it's all about Bull, and the scene's the Red Cow.
Fal de ral.

Yet not without moral the author indites,
For he points to the blessings of Englishmen's rights;
Let a duke wrong a brazier; the barristers all
Know that brass can do wonders in Westminster Hall.
Fal de ral.

But was ever a tale so improbably told
As Peregrine swimming with large lumps of gold!
Should a man who sinks cash, with his cash try to swim,
For a pound to a shilling his cash would sink him.
Fal de ral.

Let us find some excuse for this strange oversight,
Let's suppose that his guineas were most of 'em light;
Nay, the guineas for grappling the shore he might thank,
'Tis amazing of late how they stick in the bank.
Fal de ral.

One circumstance keeps probability's law,
A beautiful female commits a faux pas.
That's nature; but critics, who don't praise in haste,
Will certainly not call the incident chaste.
Fal de ral.

Now in art, if not nature. Tom Shuffleton's found,
He's one of those puppies who better were drowned;
Of the worst Bond Street litter—such whelps none admire,
Chuck 'em all in the Thames, they wont set it on fire.
Fal de ral.

Mr. Dennis Brulgruddery lives with his dear;
They're in style, and agree just like thunder and beer;
An Irishman's blunders are pretty well hacked,
But how charmingly sure Mr. Johnstone did act!
Fal de ral.

Now I've touched on the principal parts of the play:
Shall it run a few nights or to-night run away?
Your votes, friends and critics, we now rest upon:
The ayes have it, I think—though it mayn't be nem. con .
Fal de ral.

Then success to John Bull! let this toast be his pride,
Bless the King of John Bull and John Bull's fireside;
At John Bull's fireside should a foe dare to frown,
May John ne'er want a poker to knock the foe down.
Fal de ral.