For he did build a house 7
For aged men & youth,
With walls of brick & stone;
He furnish'd it within
With whatever he could win,
And all his own.
He drew out of the Stocks 13
His money in a box,
And sent his servant
To Green the Bricklayer,
And to the Carpenter;
He was so fervent.
The chimneys were three score, 19
The windows many more;
And, for convenience,
He sinks & gutters made,
And all the way he pav'd
To hinder pestilence.
Was not this a good man—25
Whose life was but a span,
Whose name was Sutton —
As Locke, or Doctor South,
Or Sherlock upon Death,
Or Sir Isaac Newton?
v
This city & this country has brought forth many mayors 1
To sit in state, & give forth laws out of their old oak chairs,
With face as brown as any nut with drinking of strong ale—
Good English hospitality, O then it did not fail!
Isl. in Moon, chap, ix—'The Lawgiver was very attentive [to the preceding song] & beg'd to have it sung over again & again; till the
