238 Pyramus and Thisbe : [SEPT. 



The COBBLER (from below). 



Cob. What are you after there, you rascal^ hey ? 

 You're at no good there, I'll be bound to say. 



Pyr. There was a hole, dear father, in the wall, 

 And I was just a stopping it that's all. 



Cob. If you don't come down stairs and mend this shoe, 

 I'll come up stairs, and, damme, I'll mend you. 



Pyr. I'm j ust a-coming, father. Oh, my eye ! 

 Confound that brick-dust ! how it makes me cry ! [Exit. 



SCENE II. A Wood Dark Night. 

 Enter a LION, drunk (singing) . 



1. 



This maxim is found, 



For those jolly dogs that roam, 

 The longest way round 



Is the shortest way home. 

 But if until the morning quite 



Perchance we cannot stay, 

 Grog in each nose a torch will light 



To guide us on our way. 



So we'll stagger, and we'll swagger, 

 And a jolly row we'll kick up; 



And with grog before us, let our chorus 

 Always end in hiccup. 



2. 



A little drop of liqour, 



When we chance to get in trouble, 

 Only makes us feel the sicker, 



For we see our sorrows double : 

 But if we drink until we find 



We cannot see or go, 

 To sorrow we shall then be blind, 

 And dead to every woe. 



So we'll stagger, &c. 



Enter THISBE, looking about her. LION goes up to her, and they sing. 



(Tune" Through Erin's Isle"). 



Lion. My pretty dear, you need not fear, 



I'll nothing do amiss; 

 I want from you, my darling true, 



Just nothing but a kiss. 

 Thiabe. I'm so afeard all at your beard, 



That here I will not stay. 

 Lion. Poh, poh, poh, poh ! you shall not go ! 

 Thisbe. Nay, zounds I'll run away. 

 Lion. Nay, if you run, sure as a gun 



Just like a shot I'll follow. 

 Thisbe. Upon my life I'll call your wife, 



And set up such a holloa! 

 Both. Fol lol de riddle dol, ri fol de riddle da. 



[LioN runs at her, but is so drunk that he falls down ; the runs off, but 

 leaves a shawl. LION gets up and sees it.] 



A pretty shawl is this, upon my life ! 

 'Twill make a famous present for my wife. 



