Carlisle.
_London._--Is the following, which was copied October 11, 1811, from a MS.
pasted on Spitalfields Church at that time, worth preserving in the pages
of "N. & Q."? Could any of your numerous correspondents furnish me with the
author's name?
"LONDON.
"Houses, churches, mixt together;
Streets cramm'd full in ev'ry weather;
Prisons, palaces, contiguous;
Sinners sad and saints religious;
Gaudy things enough to tempt ye;
Outsides showy, insides empty;
Baubles, beasts, mechanics, arts,
Coaches, wheelbarrows, and carts;
Warrants, bailiffs, bills unpaid,
Lords of laundresses afraid;
Rogues that nightly prowl and shoot men;
Hangmen, aldermen, and footmen;
Lawyers, poets, priests, physicians,
Noble, simple, all conditions;
Worth beneath a threadbare cover,
Villainy bedaubed all over;
Women, black, fair, red, and gray,
Women that can play and pay;
Handsome, ugly, witty, still,
Some that will not, some that will;
Many a beau without a shilling,
Many a widow not unwilling,
Many a bargain, if you strike it,--
This is London, if you like it."