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Long ago, our English actors / Ranked with rogues and vagabonds; / They were jailed as malefactors, / They were ducked in village ponds. / In the stocks the beadle shut them, / While the friends they chanced to meet / Would invariably cut them / In the street.
With suspicion people eyed them, / Ev'ry country-squire would feel / That his fallow-deer supplied them / With the makings of a meal. / They annexed the parson's rabbits, / Poached the pheasants of the peer, / And had other little habits / Just as queer!