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The old Hag in a red Cloak Inscribed to the Author of the Grim white [[underline]] Woman. [[/underline]] Mat Lewis was little, Mat Lewis was young, His words were lisped prettily over his tongue, A spyglass he used, for he could not well see A spyglass he used for short sighted was he. With his spyglass once spying in Parliament Street He chanced an Old Hag in a red Cloak to meet, When the Hag in a red Cloak, thus, awfully said, "Pray give me a sixpence to buy me some bread," "No sixpence I'll give thee to buy thee some bread," To the Hag in a red Cloak, Mat feelingly said, Then down to the House in a haste strutted he Sure all the world knows little Matt's an M:P: But as onward he strutted and pushed thro' the crowd, The Hag in a red cloak still cursed him aloud
