A Bermondsey tanner would often engage
In a long tête-a-tête with his dame,
While trotting to town in the Kensington stage,
About giving their villa a name.

A neighbour, thus hearing the skin-dresser talk,
Stole out, half an hour after dark,
Pick'd up in the roadway a fragment of chalk,
And wrote on the palings — " Hide Park! "