The Newcastle HackneysThe Londoners long for example we've chose,
and imported each fashion as fast as it 'rose;
Bur the best hit of all, in our awkward approaches,
Is St. Nicholas' Square and the new hackney coaches.The ladies have long had advantage of man,
In that easy conveyance, a walking sedan;
Now the tables are turn'd on he opposite side,
For the ladies must walk while the gentlemen ride.When our beaux are dress'd out for a rout or a ball,
They've nothing to do but a hackney to call--
Consult not the weather, nor muffle their chins--
No danger of breaking, o'er scrapers, their shins.When a couple's resolv'd on a trip to the church,
Wheree a lady has sometimes been left in the lurch;
To prevent a misfortune like this, for the future,
Pack up in a hackney your amiable suitor.When impertinent tradesmen you're likely to meet,
Or a bailiff descry at the end of the street--
Press into your service a hackney and pair,
For the devil himself would not look for you there.To many things else they'll apply, I've a notion,
They'll even be found to assist your devotion;
The doctors will find them most useful, no doubt on't,
In peopling the world, or to send people out on'tThen success to the hackneys, and long may they roll--
Of balls and assemblies the life and the soul:
Since so useful they are, and so cheap is the fare,
Pray who would not ride in a carriage and pair?Oliver-In: The Newcastle Song Book or Tyne-Side Songster., W&T Fordyce
Newcastle Upon Tyne.