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Centrick in London noise and London follies	A
Proud Covent Garden blooms in smoky glory	B
For chairmen coffee rooms piazzas dollies	A
Cabbages and comedians fame'd in story	B
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On this gay spot upon a sober plan	C
Dwelt a right regular and staid young man	C
Much did he early hours and quiet love	D
And was entitle'd Mr Isaac Shove	D
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An Orphan he yet rich in expectations	A
Which nobody seem'd likely to supplant	E
From that prodigious bore of all relations	A
A fusty canting stiff rump'd Maiden Aunt	E
The wealthy Miss Lucretia Cloghorty	E
Who had brought Isaac up and own'd to forty	E
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Shove on this maiden's Will relied securely	E
Who vow'd she ne'er would wed to mar his riches	A
Full often would she say of men demurely	E
I can't abide the filthy things in breeches	A
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He had Apartments up two pair of stairs	A
On the first floor lodge'd Doctor Crow	F
The Landlord was a torturer of hairs	A
And made a grand display of wigs below	F
From the beau's Brutus to the parson's grizzle	G
Over the door way was his name 'twas Twizzle	G
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Now you must know	F
This Doctor Crow	F
Was not of Law nor Music nor Divinity	E
He was obstetrick but the fact is	A
He didn't in Lucina's turnpike practise	A
He took bye roads reducing Ladies' shapes	A
Who had secure'd themselves from leading apes	A
But kept the reputation of virginity	E
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Crow had a roomy tenement of brick	H
Enclose'd with walls one mile from Hyde Park corner	I
Fir trees and yews were planted round it thick	H
No situation was forlorner	I
Yet notwithstanding folks might scout it	E
It suited qualmish Spinsters who fell sick	H
And didn't wish the world to know about it	E
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Here many a single gentlewoman came	J
Pro tempore full tender of her fame	J
Who for a while took leave of friends in town	K
Business forsooth to Yorkshire call'd her down	K
Too weighty to be settle'd by Attorney	E
And in a month's or six weeks' time came back	L
When every body cried Good lack	L
How monstrous thin you've grown upon your journey	E
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The Doctor knowing that a puff of Scandal	G
Would blow his private trade to tatters	A
Dreaded to give the smallest handle	G
To those who dabble in their neighbours' matters	A
Therefore he wisely held it good	E
To hide his practice from the neighbourhood	E
And not appear there as a resident	E
But merely one who casually went	E
To see the lodgers in the large brick house	A
To lounge and chat not minding time a souse	A
Like one to whom all business was quite foreign	M
And thus he visited his female sick	H
Who lay as thick	H
Within his tenement of brick	H
As rabbits in a warren	M
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He lodge'd in Covent Garden all the while	G
And if they sent in haste for his assistance	A
He soon was with 'em 'twas no mighty distance	A
From the town's end it was but a bare mile	G
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Now Isaac Shove	D
Living above	D
This Doctor Crow	I
And knowing Barber Twizzle live'd below	I
Thought it might be as well	G
Hearing so many knocks single and double	G
To buy at his own cost a street door bell	G
And save confusion in the house and trouble	G
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Whereby his Isaac's visitors might know	I
Without long waiting in the dirt and drizzle	G
To ring for him at once and not to knock for Crow	I
Nor Twizzle	G
Besides he now began to feel	G
The want of it was rather ungenteel	G
For he had often thought it a disgrace	A
To hear while sitting in his room above	D
Twizzle's shrill maid on the first landing place	A
Screaming a man below vants Mister Shove	D
The bell was bought the wire was made to steal	G
Round the dark stair case like a tortur'd eel	G
Twisting and twining	N
The jemmy handle Twizzle's door post grace'd	E
And just beneath a brazen plate was place'd	E
Lacquer'd and shining	N
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Graven whereon in characters full clear	I
And legible did Mr Shove appear	I
And furthermore which you might read right well	G
Was Please to ring the bell	G
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At half past ten precisely to a second	E
Shove every night his supper ended	E
And sipp'd his glass of negus till he reckon'd	E
By his stop watch exactly one more quarter	I
Then as exactly he untied one garter	I
A token 'twas that he for bed intended	E
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Yet having still a quarter good before him	O
He leisurely undress'd before the fire	I
Contriving as the quarter did expire	I
To be as naked as his mother bore him	O
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Bating his shirt and night cap on his head	E
Then as the watchman bawl'd eleven	M
He had one foot in bed	E
More certainly than cuckolds go to Heaven	M
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Alas what pity 'tis that regularity	E
Like Isaac Shove's is such a rarity	E
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But there are swilling Wights in London town	K
Term'd Jolly dogs Choice Spirits alias Swine	P
Who pour in midnight revel bumpers down	K
Making their throats a thoroughfare for wine	P
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These spendthrifts who Life's pleasures thus out run	M
Dozing with head aches till the afternoon	Q
Lose half men's regular estate of Sun	M
By borrowing too largely of the Moon	Q
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One of this kidney Toby Tosspot hight	E
Was coming from the Bedford late at night	E
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And being Bacchi plenus full of wine	P
Although he had a tolerable notion	M
Of aiming at progressive motion	M
'Twasn't direct 'twas serpentine	P
He work'd with sinuosities along	R
Like Monsieur Corkscrew worming thro' a Cork	S
Not straight like Corkscrew's proxy stiff Don Prong	R
A Fork	S
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At length with near four bottles in his pate	E
He saw the moon shining on Shove's brass plate	E
When reading Please to ring the bell	G
And being civil beyond measure	I
Ring it says Toby very well	G
I'll ring it with a deal of pleasure	I
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Toby the kindest soul in all the town	K
Gave it a jerk that almost jerk'd it down	K
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He waited full two minutes no one came	J
He waited full two minutes more and then	T
Says Toby if he's deaf I'm not to blame	J
I'll pull it for the gentleman again	T
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But the first peal woke Isaac in a fright	E
Who quick as lightning popping up his head	E
Sat on his head's Antipodes in bed	E
Pale as a parsnip bolt upright	E
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At length he wisely to himself did say	A
Calming his fears	A
Tush 'tis some fool has rung and run away	A
When peal the second rattle'd in his ears	A
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Shove jump'd into the middle of the floor	I
And trembling at each breath of air that stirr'd	E
He grope'd down stairs and open'd the street door	I
While Toby was performing peal the third	E
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Isaac eye'd Toby fearfully askant	E
And saw he was a strapper stout and tall	G
Then put this question Pray Sir what d'ye want	E
Says Toby I want nothing Sir at all	G
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Want nothing Sir you've pull'd my bell I vow	U
As if you'd jerk it off the wire	I
Quoth Toby gravely making him a bow	U
I pull'd it Sir at your desire	I
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At mine Yes yours I hope I've done it well	G
High time for bed Sir I was hast'ning to it	E
But if you write up Please to ring the bell	G
Common politeness makes me stop and do it	E
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Isaac now waxing wroth apace	A
Slamm'd the street door in Toby's face	A
With all his might	E
And Toby as he shut it swore	I
He was a dirty son of something more	I
Than delicacy suffers me to write	E
And lifting up the knocker gave a knock	V
So long and loud it might have raise'd the dead	E
Twizzle declares his house sustain'd a shock	V
Enough to shake his lodgers out of bed	E
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Toby his rage thus vented in the rap	W
Went serpentining home to take his nap	W
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'Tis now high time to let you know	I
That the obstetrick Doctor Crow	I
Awoke in the beginning of this matter	I
By Toby's tintinnabulary clatter	I
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And knowing that the bell belong'd to Shove	D
He listen'd in his bed but did not move	X
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He only did apostrophize	A
Sending to hell	G
Shove and his bell	G
That wouldn't let him close his eyes	A
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But when he heard a thundering knock says he	E
That's certainly a messenger for me	E
Somebody ill in the Brick House no doubt	E
Then mutter'd hurrying on his dressing gown	K
I wish my Ladies out of town	K
Chose more convenient times for crying out	E
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Crow in the dark now reached the stair case head	E
Shove in the dark was coming up to bed	E
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A combination of ideas flocking	N
Upon the pericranium of Crow	I
Occasion'd by the hasty knocking	N
Succeeded by a foot he heard below	I
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He did as many folks are apt to do	E
Who argue in the dark and in confusion	M
That is from the Hypothesis he drew	E
A false conclusion	M
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Concluding Shove to be the person sent	E
With an express from the brick tenement	E
Whom Barber Twizzle torturer of hairs	A
Had civilly let in and sent up stairs	A
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As Shove came up tho' he had long time kept	E
His character for patience very laudably	I
He couldn't help at every step he stepp'd	E
Grunting and grumbling in his gizzard audibly	I
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For Isaac's mental feelings you must know	I
Not only were considerably hurt	E
But his corporeal also	I
Having no other clothing than a shirt	E
A dress beyond all doubt most light and airy	I
It being then a frost in January	I
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When Shove was deep down stairs the Doctor heard	E
Being much nearer the stair top	Y
Just here and there a random word	E
Of the Soliloquies that Shove let drop	Y
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But shortly by progression brought	E
To contact nearer	I
The Doctor consequently heard him clearer	I
And then the fag end of this sentence caught	E
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Which Shove repeated warmly tho' he shiver'd	E
Damn Twizzle's house and damn the Bell	I
And damn the fool who rang it Well	I
From all such plagues I'll quickly be deliver'd	E
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What quickly be deliver'd echoes Crow	I
Who is it Come be sharp reply reply	I
Who wants to be deliver'd let me know	I
Recovering his surprise Shove answer'd I	I
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You be deliver'd says the Doctor 'Sblood	E
Hearing a man's gruff voice You lout you lob	Z
You be deliver'd Come that's very good	E
Says Shove I will so help me Bob	Z
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Fellow cried Crow you're drunk with filthy beer	I
A drunkard fellow is a brute's next neighbour	I
But Miss Cloghorty's time was very near	I
And I suppose Lucretia's now in labour	I
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Zounds bellows Shove with rage and wonder wild	E
Why then my maiden Aunt is big with child	E
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Here was at once a sad discovery made	E
Lucretia's frolick now was past a joke	A2
Shove tremble'd for his Fortune Crow his Trade	E
Both both saw ruin by one fatal stroke	A2
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But with his Aunt when Isaac did discuss	A
She hush'd the matter up by speaking thus	A
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Sweet Isaac said Lucretia spare my Fame	J
Tho' for my babe I feel as should a mother	I
Your Fortune will continue much the same	J
For keep the Secret you're his Elder Brother	I