So if we can hang them for breaking a bobbin,

'T will save all the Government's money and meat:

Men are more easily made than machinery—

Stockings fetch better prices than lives—

Gibbets on Sherwood will heighten the scenery,

Shewing how Commerce, how Liberty thrives!

3.

Justice is now in pursuit of the wretches,

Grenadiers, Volunteers, Bow-street Police,

Twenty-two Regiments, a score of Jack Ketches,

Three of the Quorum and two of the Peace;

Some Lords, to be sure, would have summoned the Judges,

To take their opinion, but that they ne'er shall,

For Liverpool such a concession begrudges,

Liverpool

So now they're condemned by no Judges at all.

4.

Some folks for certain have thought it was shocking,

When Famine appeals and when Poverty groans,

That Life should be valued at less than a stocking,

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