The watch now muster strong and dare Dispute the empire of the field; They wave their cudgels high in air, "Now yield thee, noble Baron yield." "Unmanner'd vagabonds! in vain You strive to mar our nightly game; Come on! come on! my merry men, The raggamuffins we can tame." In heaps the victims bite the dust, Down sinks Earl Walter on the ground, Now run who can, and lie who must, For loud the _watchmen's rattles_ sound. Now to the justice borne along, In sullen majesty they go; The place receives the motley throng, And echoes to their hollo ho! All mild amid the rout profane, The _justice_ solemn thus began: "Forebear your knighthood thus to stain, Revere the dignity of man. The meanest trull has rights to plead, Which wrong'd by cruelty or pride, Draw vengeance on thy guilty head, Howe'er by titles dignified." Cold drops of sweat in many a trill, Adown Earl Walter's temples fall, And louder, louder, louder still, The surly watch for vengeance call. The right-hand stranger anxious pleads; The clamours of the mob increase, The _riot act_ the justice reads, And binds the Earl to keep the peace. The court broke up, they sally out, And raise a loud, a last huzza; Then sneak'd away and hung his snout, Each disappointed dog of law. Muttering full many a curse, and fast Homeward to slumber now they go; Yet spite of all that now has passed, You'll hear next night their hollo ho! This is the Earl, and this his train, That oft the awaken'd _Cockney_ hears; With rage he glows in every vein When the wild din invades his ears. The dreaming maid sighs sad and oft, That she her visions must forego, When waken'd from her slumbers soft, She hears the cry of hollo ho! _Port Folio_, III-44, Jan. 17, 1807, Phila. [Parody on G. A. Bürger's poem _Der wilde Jäger_. Cf. pp. 34, 85.] THE WANDERER OF SWITZERLAND. By JAMES MONTGOMERY. _Emerald_, II-108, Feb. 28, 1807, Boston. [James Montgomery, _op. cit._ Extracts given. Cf. Preface.] SWISS PEASANT.