The Wily Knight.

Air: "Oft in the Stilly Night."
Oft when the wily Knight,
In Opposition found me,
Meeting in the wordy fight,
His eloquence has drown'd me:
The frequent cheers,
And loud "hear, hears,"
The House so oft hath woken;
The battles won,
When I was done
My heart hath nearly broken.
Oft when the wily Knight,
In Opposition found me,
Meeting in the wordy fight,
His eloquence has drown'd me.

Whin Johnny concluded his lay, the boys called on Tom Dick for a song, an' that gintleman replied as follows:—"Weel, ye see, ma freens, I'm no used to sing anything but Moody and Sankey's hymns, as I think profane sangs hae a tendency tae encourage sin. However, I will gie ye a stave or twa, composed by myself, on the disgracefu performance witnessed in this city lately." Av coor.se Misther Dick rote me down his remarks an' song, bekays I don't spaike Scotch, an' the following is the milody:—