Call Again To-morrow

I?ll to court among the nobility,
Hold up my head with the best,
Learn politeness and all incivility,
And be most presumptuously drost.
(Spoken.) ? Then I shall get an officious
situation, and expence favours and places, like
other great men, but if they offer me a bribe,
as I am above all incorruption, I shall, like my
betters ? pocket the affront with
Call again to-morrow,
Can?t you?
Call again to-morrow.

All ranks and degrees of the quality,
To all my routs I?ll invite.
And have with true inhospitality,
Public breakfasts at seven at night.
(Spoken.) ? It will be pretty expensive and
I may overrun the constable, but to pay debts
Is unfashionable, so when a dun knocks at the
Door, I shall look out of the window and say,
Call again to-morrow,
Can?t you?
Call again to-morrow.

I?ll then, to support my indignity,
My hand to some heiress expense;
Then with all proper pride and benignity,
On an old friend I?ll turn up my nose.
(Spoken.) ? Conscience may tease me a little,
but its all dicky with that in the new
school; common sense and common honesty
may do for common folks, but with us people
of superogatory rank its all
Call again to-morrow,
Can?t you?
Call again to-morrow.

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