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For you, you coppers, narks, and dubs, Who pinched me when upon the snam, And gave me mumps and mulligrubs With skilly and swill that made me clam, At you I merely lift my gam-- I drink your health against the wall! That is the sort of man I am, A mot's good-night to one and all!

The Farewell.

Paste 'em, and larrup 'em, and lamm! Give Kennedy, and make 'em crawl! I do not care one bloody damn, A mot's good-night to one and all.

[1: false clericos] [2: beggar feigning sickness] [3: cadgers; loafing] [4: saucy girls; non-sense] [5: women dress; game] [6: rings; right hand] [7: harlot] [8: prostitutes; expose paps] [9: see; pay for] [10: Punch-and-judy-man] [11: pattering tradesman] [12: wife] [13: police; informers; warders] [14: arrested; stealing] [15: "the blues"] [16: refuse food] [17: leg] [18: urinate] [19: thrash them and make them stir]

VILLON'S STRAIGHT TIP TO ALL CROSS COVES [Notes] [1887]

[By WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY].

'Tout aux tavernes et aux filles'