EDWIN'S PILLS, &c, SONG

Of ups and downs we daily see Examples, most surprising, The High and Low, of each degree, Now falling are, now rising: Some up, some down, some in, some out, Some neither one nor t'other; Knaves, Fools, Jews, Gentiles, join the rout, And jostle one another! With my heigho! Gee-up! gee-ho! Higgledy piggledy! Truth, honour, honesty! Trim tram! Your honesty's scarce, Honour's grown a mere farce, And poor truth! baw! an obsolete whim-wham!

By ups and downs, some folks, they say, Among Grandees have got, Sir, Who were themselves, but yesterday, The Lord knows, who, or what, Sir! Sans sense, or pence, in Merit's chair They dose and dream supine-o! But how the Devil they came there — That neither you nor I know. With my heigho! &c.

Your Country-maid comes up to town, A simple, aukward body; In half a year again goes down. No Peacock half so gaudy! Lord, ma'am! exclaims the Lawyer's wife, With scandal ever ready, You see the ups and downs of life Have made our Meg a Lady. With my heigho! &c.

Virtue and Vanity are grown Mere buckets in a well, Sir; The last gets up, the first gets down, As all the World can tell, Sir: So many downs poor Virtue meets, Her ups so very few, Sir, 'Tis said she's naked met i' th' streets, — But that is nothing new, Sir. With my heigho! &c.

Oh! what an age of ups and downs, Hey! seven's the main, my Lord thrice knocks, Lands, Liberties, Manors, and Towns, Are rattling in the dice-box! Up fly the Fools! on ruin bent, While they are full in feather; Get pluck'd, then rumbling down are sent Whoop! pell-mell all together. With my heigho! &c.