This poor old hat and breeches, as you see, were "Constables came up for to take me into Custody; they took me before the justice; Justice Oldmixon put me in the parish Stocks for a vagrant. "I should be glad to drink your Honour's health in A pot of beer, if you will give me sixpence ; But for my part, I never love to meddle With politics, sir." FRIEND OF HUMANITY. "I give thee sixpence! I will see thee damn'd first— Wretch! whom no sense of wrongs can rouse to vengeance – Sordid, unfeeling, reprobate, degraded, Spiritless outcast!" [Kicks the Knife-grinder, overturns his wheel, and exit in a transport of Republican enthusiasm and universal philanthropy.] HENE'ER with haggard eyes I view Who studied with me at the U -niversity of Gottingen, -niversity of Gottingen. [Weeps, and pulls out a blue kerchief, with which he wipes his eyes; gazing tenderly at it, he proceeds Sweet kerchief, check'd with heavenly blue, Which once my love sat knotting in! Alas! Matilda then was true! Al least I thought so at the U -niversity of Gottingen -niversity of Gottingen. [At the repetition of this line ROGERO clanks his chains in cadence. Barbs! Barbs! alas! how swift you flew -niversity of Gottingen. This faded form! this pallid hue! -niversity of Gottingen- There first for thee my passion grew, -niversity of Gottingen -niversity of Gottingen. Sun, moon, and thou vain world, adieu, -niversity of Gottingen -niversity of Gottingen. [During the last stanza ROGERO dashes his head repeatedly against the walls of his prison; and, finally, so hard as to produce a visible contusion; he then throws himself on the floor in an agony. The curtain drops; the music still continuing to play till it is wholly fallen. |