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lat?"-" Bish, sir."-" Eh, ma foi l Bish encore? Vel."-" There was No. 032, 3001."-" And who was sel?"Bish, sir."-" Eh, mon dieu! 'tis very grand fortune. Now den de last, and who vas sel dat?"-" Why, sir, the last was No. 6275, 300l., also sold by Bish."" Eh, de diable! 'tis von chose impossible, Bish sell all de four ?"-" Yes, sir, and in a former lottery he sold all the three thirty thousands." -" Den he is von golden philosopher. I vill buy, I villlet me see. Yes, I vill buy your shop."His ambition was at last, however, contented with three tickets; so that he has three chances of gaining the two thirty thousands yet in the wheel; and we have no doubt Bish will have the good luck of selling them.

"BISH" is the subject of versified praise, in another bill.

HOW TO BE HAPPY.

Let misers hug their worship d hoards,
And lock their chests with care;
Whilst we enjoy what life affords,
With spirits light as air.
For our days shall haily gaily be,
Prizes in store before us,
We'll spend our ev'nings merrily,
And BISH we'll toast in chorus.

Let lovers droop for sparkling eyes,
And heave the tender sigh:
Whilst we embrace the glittering prize,
And meagre care defy.
For our days shall haily gaily be,
Plenty in store before us;
Our cash we'll jingle merrily,

And BISH we'll toast in chorus.

Let glory call the sons of war

To dare the crimson'd field;
Sweet Fortune's charms are brighter far,
Her golden arms we'll wield.
Then our days will haily gaily be,
Riches in store before us;

We'll dance through life most merrily,
And BISH we'll toast in chorus.

"BISH" on another occasion steps in with :

PERMIT ME TO ASK

Have you seen the scheme of the present Lottery?

Do you know that it contains MORE

PRIZES than BLANKS?

Have you heard how very cheap the

tickets are?

Are you aware, that Lotteries are about to be discontinued, the chancellor of the exchequer having said that the Lottery bill, introduced last session of parliament, should be the last?

I need not direct you to BISH's, as being the luckiest offices in the kingdom, &c.

"BISH" adventured in the " City Lottery," a scheme devised for getting rid of the houses in Picket-street, Temple-bar, and Skinner-street, Snow-hill; and on that occasion he favoured the world with the following :

FREEHOLDS AND FORTUNES.
BY PETER PUN.

Tune." Drops of Brandy."

Dame Fortune is full of her tricks,
And blind, as her portraits reveal, sir;
Then the best way the goddess to fix,

Is by putting a spoke in her wheel, sir :
Her favours the Lott'ry unfolds,

Then the summons to BISH don't scorn
sir;

For, as her cornucopia he holds,
He's the lad for exalting your horn, sir.
Rum ti iddity, &c

With poverty who would be known,
And live upon orts in a garret, sir,
Who could get a good house of his own,
And fatten on roast beef and claret, sir!
In the city scheme this you'll obtain,
At BISH's, where all folks pell-mell come,
By a ticket a free-hold you'll gain,

And it cannot be more free than welcome.
Rum ti iddity, &c.

This house, when you once realize it,
Upholders will look sharp as lynxes,
For an order to Egyptianize it,

With catacomb fal lals and sphynxes;
Chairs and tables, a mummy-like crew,
With crocodile grooms of the stole, sir,
Sarcophagus coal-skuttles too,

And at BISH's you'll fill them with cole, sir.
Rum ti iddity, &c.

For when you're thus furnish'd in state,
And a pretty establishment got, sir,
Ten to one but it pops in your pate,

You'll want sticks to be boiling the pot,

sir;

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THE

PHILOSOPHER'S STONE

That stone,

Philosophers in vain so long have sought,

Says Milton, would not prove valuable to its possessor than an absol knowledge of certain numbers wh

hidden in the Wheel of Fortune tia Fa declares to the enraptured ears of the ar venturer, who has founded his hopes: success on them, their union with ceram large sums of money, viz. Twenty, Is or Five Thousand Pounds for there a many such sums yet in the wheel, yer. be determined, yet to be gained by zarding a mere trifle.

He, who life's sea successfully would sail, Must often throw a sprat to catch a whale. Apply this proverb then; think, ere too late, What fortune, honour, and what wealth awa The very trifling sum of one pound eight

"BISH," of course, imagined, or wished, the public to be amazingly surprised his popularity, and therefore indulged them with this song:

WHAT'S THE MATTER!
By Quintin Query, Esq.

Tune.-" O Dear, what can the Matter be?"

"O dear, what can the matter be? To tell, who can be at a loss? The people are running by dozens to Bisa's, To make out their dreams, and fulfil all their wishes,

And try to come in for the loaves and the fishes,

At 4, Cornhill, and 9, Charing-cross.

"O dear, what can the matter be?"

I'll tell you, good friend, if you wisn; The people are trying dame Fortune to cozen, And the old women's tongues are aternally About lucky numbers, 19 to the dozen, And all they can talk of is BISH. "O dear, what can the matter be?"

buzzing,

I dare say you're dying to know; The horns blow about, be it rainy or sunny, The walls they are cover'd with bills all so

funny,

To shew you the way how to finger the money, And you all know that "makes the mare go."

"O dear, what can the matter be

The bellman he rings such a peal? To tell those whose fortunes are rusted with rickets,

To call at good luck's (that is, Bish's) two wickets,

* The price of a Sixteenth in the present Letters

And a transfer obtain for 500 Whole Tickets;
How conceited they'd make a man feel!

Then the day of all days is the very next
Tuesday;

O dear, what can the matter be?"
For joy you'll be dancing a jig;
For good luck most folks are delighted to

choose a day,

And a lucky day surely must be a good news

day,

Then, Misfortune a black Monday a fig !

"BISH," on another occasion, treated the "gentle public," like so many children, with another optical delusion.

FORTUNE'S GALANTY SHOW.

Tune.-" GALANTY SHOW."

O pretty show, O caree show, O finey galanty show, O pretty galanty show !

Chaunt.

Come, all my merry customers, of high, middling, and low degree,
Look in at one of these little glasses, and you shall see what you shall see;
My fine galanty show you great wonders shall view in,

You shall see the high road to Fortune, and that's better than the road to Ruin.

O pretty show, O raree show, O finey galanty show, O pretty galanty show!

There you see the New Lott'ry Scheme, such as never was plann'd before !
Fewer Tickets, and fewer Blanks, and yet the Prizes are more;
And besides the usual 5's, 10's, and 20 Thousands (Peep thro' one of these wickets,)
You shall see such a Prize as was never yet known, neither more nor less than 1000
And there you shall see, (Look a little to the right) Mr. BISH's Shop on Cornhill :
O pretty show, &c
(Now a little to the left) And there's his other Shop at Charing-cross, where buy

whole Tickets!

Shares if you will;

never saw;

You'll get a part of the 1000 whole Tickets, I'll be bound,
And that's very much like getting a part of more than a Hundred Thousand Pounds !
Then look straight forward, and there you see Coopers' Hall, (Isn't it a fine building?)
O pretty show, &c.
there the Tickets they draw;
And there you see the pretty little Blue-coat Boys, and nicer little fellows you
There you'll see 'em pulling the Numbers and Prizes out of the very Grand Wheels
And when one has a Ticket in the Lottery, and sees such a sight, how narvous
one feels!
O pretty show, &c.
And there-(Rub the glass a little cleaner) there's a sight I'd not have you miss for
The little Boy draws out a Number (Let me see what Number you have got) aye,
There don't the Clerk (On the left hand) look exactly as if he was calling it, don't you
And the other little Boy draws, and the other Clerk looks as if he bawl'd out a
£20,000 Prize.
O pretty show, &c.
There you see ('tis no Dream of Castles in the Air, called Utopia)
There you see Fortune pouring the Guineas out of what the deuce is it? a great
long hard name-Oh! her Cornucopia !
That's a fine Golden Horn, that holds all the Prizes, I declare,
And to get its Contents would be a pretty Horn Fair !

a pound,
that's it, I'll be bound;

see how he cries?

O pretty show, &c.

"BISH" was pleased to devise the scheme of a Lottery to be drawn on St. Swithin's day, wherein wine was added to the prizes, and therefore, and because its

novelty was deemed alluring, we find one of his bills beginning with an apostrophising and prophetic couplet :

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"BISH," in another bill, oddly enough, put an old, one-legged smoker, with a patch over one eye, a carbuncled nose, and his only foot flannelled up for the gout, the effects of drinking, in an arm chair, with the following lines below :

"LAID UP IN PORT."

Od's blood! what a time for a seaman to skulk,
Like a lazy land-lubber ashore;
If I'm laid up at all, I'll be laid up in port,
And surrounded by prizes galore.

Tommy Bish shall fill my glass,
And the puppies, as they pass,
Sha'n't run down the old commodore,
The rich old commodore, the cosey old com-
modore,

The boozing old commodore he; While I'm friends with mighty BISH, He will crown my ev'ry wish,

Tho' I'll never more be fit for sea.

Then also, "Bish" favoured his "friends" with the opportunity of sing. ing,

BACCHUS AND PLUTUS, OR THE UNION. Tune.-" Derry Down."

A ROW was kick'd up in the regions above, For PLUTUS and BACCHUS for precedence strove;

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"AS BACCHUS is down," then says PLUTUS, "I'll rise;" And this speech he address'd to the knobs of the skies:

"That gold is a blessing, I'm sure I can prove: The soother of cares, and cementer of love! "You know the old proverb, of poverty, sure, 'Tis something about when she enters the door,

That love, through the window, soon toddles away;' But if there were gold, I'm sure that he'd stay.

"I'll own that my bounties are sometimes misus'd:

But pray why should I, sirs, for that be abus'd?"

Here Jove stopp'd him short, and with positive air, Insisted that they should their quarrel forbear.

"Your claims I admit, sir, and BACCHUS's too;

But a plan to unite you, I now have in view; You know TOMMY BISH?"-" To be sure!"

exclaim all,

""Tis on him, that dame Fortune her bounty lets fall!"

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The minister in reducing the duty, so that wines may be sold at one shilling per bottle cheaper, has done much to increase the spirits of the people; at the same time he has adopted another measure that will in a few months DESTROY THE FREE TRADE of every person in the kingdom to obtain for a small sum a great fortune in a few weeks, by having determined to abolish Lotteries, which must soon end for ever; therefore, the present is one of the last opportunities to buy, &c.

"BISH," according to the old plan, "ever ready to serve his friends," issued

THE AMBULATOR'S GUIDE
TO THE LAND OF PLENTY.

BY PURCHASING A TICKET,
In the present Lottery,

You may reap a golden harvest in Cornhill, and pick up the bullion in Silver

street; have an interest in Bank-build

ings; possess a Mansion-house in Goldensquare, and an estate like a Little Britain; pour red wine down Gutter-lane; never be in Hungerford-market; but all your life continue a May-fair.

BY PURCHASING A HALF, You need never be confined within Lon

don-wall, but become the proprietor of many a Long-acre; represent a Borough, or an Aldermanbury; and have a snug share in Threadneedle-street.

BY PURCHASING A QUARTER, Your affairs need never be in Crookedlane, nor your legs in Fetter-lane; you may avoid Paper-buildings; steer clear of the King's-bench, and defy the Marshalsea; if your heart is in Love-lane, you may soon get into Sweetings-alley, obtain your lover's consent for Matrimony-place, and always live in a High

street.

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BY PURCHASING a SIXTEENΤΗ, You may live frugal in Cheapside; get merry in Liquorpond-street; soak your hide in Leather-lane; be a wet sole in Shoe-lane; turn maltster in Beer-lane, or hammer away in Smithfield.

In short, life must indeed be a Longlane, if it's without a turning. Therefore if you are wise, without Mincing the matter, be Fleet and go Pall-mall to Cornhill or Charing-cross, and enroll your name in the Temple of Fortune, BISH's.

LOTTERY FOR WOMEN IN INDIA.

Advertisement.

BE IT KNOWN, that SIX FAIR PRETTY YOUNG LADIES, with two sweet and engaging young children, lately IMPORTED FROM EUROPE, having roses of health blooming on their cheeks, and joy sparkling in their eyes, possessing amiable manners, and highly accomplished, whom the most indifferent cannot

behold without expressions of rapture, are

to be RAFFLED FOR next door to the

British gallery. SCHEME: twelve tickets, at twelve rupees each; the highest of the three throws, doubtless, takes the most fascinating, &c."*

Communicated by J. J. A. F. from a Calcutta newspaper of Sept. 3, 1818.

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