Why should Honesty seek any safer retreat
From the lawyers or barges, odd-rot-'em?
For the lawyers are just at the top of the street,
And the barges are just at the bottom!

[First printed in Barham's Life of Hook (1849), in reply to the following epigram by James Smith, "On Craven Street, Strand" | In Craven Street, Strand, ten attorneys find place, And ten dark coal-barges are moored at the base: Fly, Honesty, fly, to some safer retreat; There's craft in the river and craft in the street.]