Salmagundi; or, The whim-whams and opinions of Launcelot Langstaff, esq. [pseud.] and others. By William Irving, James Kirke Paulding and Washington Irving. Printed from the original ed., with a preface and notes by Evert A. Duyckinck.

6 SALMAGUNDI.
PROCLAMATION, FROM THE MILL OF PINDAR
COCKLOFT, ESQ.
TO all the young belles who enliven our scene,
From ripe five-and-forty, to blooming fifteen;
Who racket at routs, and who rattle at plays,
Who visit, and fidget, and dance out their days;
Who conquer all hearts with a shot from the eye,
Who freeze with a frown, and who thaw with a sigh:To all those bright youths who embellish the age,
Whether young boys, or old boys, or numskull or sage:
Whether BULL DOGS, who cringe at their mistress's feet,
Who sigh and who whine, and who try to look sweet;
Whether TOUGH DOGS, who squat down stock still in a row
And play wooden gentlemen stuck up for a show;
Or SAD DOGS, who glory in running their rigs,
Now dash in their sleighs, and now whirl in their gigs;
Who riot at Dyde's* on imperial champagne,
And then scour our city-the peace to maintain;
To whoe'er it concerns or may happen to meet,
By these presents their worships I lovingly greet,
Now KNOW YE, that I, PINDAR COCKLOFT, esquire,
Am laureate, appointed at special desire;
A censor, self-dubbed, to admonish the fair,
And tenderly take the town under my care.
I'm a ci-devant beau, cousin Launcelot has saidA remnant of habits long vanished and dead:
* Dyde's public-house was in Park Row. It was brought into notice
by a famous coalition supper of the Burrites and Clintonians. A pamphlet was published giving an account of the Dyde Supper.