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Go where I will—in every street,
 I’m shook, Sirs, by the hand,
No matter who it is I meet,
 What are you going to stand?

One morning I’d been to get some cash,
 From a swell at the west end ;
Resolv’d I was to cut a dash,
 When I met with a friend.
I told him of the errand I’d been.
 When he takes me by the hand,
 I’m glad to hear’t, my boy, says he
What are you going to stand?

Says I, I doesn’t mind a drop,
 My spirits for to rouse;
So then we toddles into a shop
 Near to Somerset house,
Inside a lot began to shout,
 As if’t had been a plan ;
It is not often we get you out,
 Now what are you going to stand?

I spent, Sirs, very near a crown,
 My cash was getting shorter,
For the liquor it went rolling down,
 As though it had been water.
A wench began my arm to shake,
 I could her hide have tann’d,
When she said, for old acquaintance sake,
 What are you going to stand ?