Then Charles gave a new ballad (new that is in the reign of Queen Anne) sung first at Messieurs Brook and Hellier's Club at the Temple Tavern in Fleet Street, but slightly altered by him to suit present company, _Since I'm in the Chair and every one here Appears in gay humour and easy; Say, why should not I, a new Ballad try, Bright Brethren o' the Bottle to please ye. This wine is my theme, this is all on's Esteem, For Jeremy Daish cannot wrong us; Let them get Wealth who keeps us in health. By bringing neat liquor among us_. (with chorus of last two lines repeated). _Each Vintner of late, has got an Estate By brewing and Sophistication With cyder and sloes, they've made a d----d dose, Has poisoned one half of the nation_. and so on until _Now God Bless the King, Peers, Parliament Men, And keep 'em like us in true concord; And grant that all those, who dare be his foes, At Tyburn may swing in a strong cord; We'll Loyalists be, and bravely agree With lives and estates to defend her--him So then we'll not care come Peace or come War For Lewis, the Pope, or Pretender._ "Ah!" said Mr. Antony Clare whose father had been a Jacobite, "you've spoilt more than the rhyme by the last word." This treasonable remark was the signal for more noise than ever because all the young gentlemen of the _Blue Boar_ who held His Majesty King George's commission felt bound to uphold the honour of the Royal Navy and the British Army by flinging a large number of Spanish nuts at the head of the disloyal Clare who retorted by emptying a whole ram's horn of snuff over Mr. Golightly so that for a while nothing was to be heard but vollies of gigantick sneezes. Exhaustion reigned for a moment, but presently the sound of hustling and bustling in the street outside roused everybody to fresh vigour of mischief.