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YOUR mandate I got, / You may all go to pot; / Had your senses been right, / You'd have sent before night; / As I hope to be saved, / I put off being shaved; / For I could not make bold, / While the matter was cold, / To meddle in suds, / Or to put on my duds; / So tell Horneck and Nesbitt, / And Baker and his bit, / And Kauffmann beside, / And the Jessamy Bride, / With the rest of the crew, / The Reynoldses two, / Little Comedy's face, / And the Captain in lace, / (By-the-bye you may tell him, / I have something to sell him; / Of use I insist, / When he comes to enlist.