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A favourite and much admired SONG, founded on facts, and sung by Mr. WALLACK, in the character of a poor harmless French Cobler, in a new Ballet, called the CARMAGNOLS ROUTED, and which will be presented this present Saturday, the 16th, and Monday next, the 18th inst. At the Royal Saloon, (ASTLEY’s) Westminster-bridge.
PIERRE SAVETIER, behold, is from France just arriv’d,
Where twenty-five years I at Cobling had triv’d,
Till one fatal day I was tore from my stall,
Le Diddle tear par pieces the Democrats all.
Derry down, down, &c.
My lapstone and last being chang’d for a gun,
With thousands of others aux frontiers I run;
But Messieurs les Anglois cause me so much fright,
That I did sham dead, and escap’d the same night*.
Derry down, &c.
Could fair words the back and the belly suffice,
We’d have victuals and clothes, masois, in a trice;
But when these we ask of our fam’d Democrats,
They stop up our mouths with their damn’d Assignats [cross symbol].
Derry down, &c.
I’d rather be a Cobler, and work in my stall,
Than of the Convention von grand General;
One day he be great man, he head all the mob,
One two three days after they cut off his nob [cross-like symbol].
Derry down, &c.
La Convention’s like to an old rotten shoe,
That wants both a sole and a top-leather too,
What lets water behind, and the mud in before,
Runs away from the foot, and returns never more.
Derry down, &c.
If safe I arrive, I will stick to my trade [symbol],
In London, where always I’m sire to be paid,
Where law is respected, and that is the ting,
What makes the poor happy, the rich, and the King.
Derry down, &c.
*The Cobler being forced from his stall, and obliged to join the Jacobin army and march to the Frontiers, on arriving in the environs of Lisle, and finding every thing in confusion, very prudently made his escape to the British Army.
[cross symbol] All kinds of work being totally at a stand, the different working-people, and trades-people apply to the Municipality Officers for subsistence; five sols per day [twopence halfpenny] is given to buy bread, notwithstanding that article is three times that sum per pound.
[cross-like symbol] Alludes to the late General Custine, &c. &c.
[symbol] The Cobler seems to have a thorough knowledge of the French National Conjurers; grass positively grows in the streets and public markets; famine, assassination, and other calamities, daily increasing, and which the tongue of the most florid orator, nor the pen of the most ingenious writer, cannot possibly describe.
