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The rummy cove's delight; a pretty
considerable collection of
queer staves. [London,] Mitford [i.e. John Duncombe, c. 1833]. pp.
[48]. front.
HORRIBLE WARNINGS
A celebrated Slang Consarn, as chaunted at various Lush Cribs.
Ye wives when you marry, of course you expect
That your husbands with something in front will be deck'd;
And should he be gifted with what's rather small,
It's better than if he had nothing at all.
But the story I tell you is true, 'pon my life,
It's found out a woman has married a wife,
Who was strong, who was hearty, was stout and was tall,
But to please her poor spouse she had - Nothing at all.
She liv'd as a groom, and the housemaid she wed,
And the very first night that they went into bed,
The wife she did turn round her face to the wall,
For she knew that her husband had - No - thing at all.
Then they laid all the night, and no doubt they both sigh'd,
For a good strapping drayman their charms to divide;
'Twas very provoking it so did befall,
That one for the other had - Nothing at all.
In a dockyard this husband did work for some years,
Undiscover'd to be a female, it appears;
And but for an accident, there is no doubt,
This secret of secrets had ne'er been found out
But it happen'd one day, that this female did die,
And the searchers were sent for, who quickly did spy,
That instead of a three-square gimblet or awl,
She'd a-a what-do'ye-call-it, - a nothing at all.
The Rummy Cove's Delight [c. 1833]
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