To-day I’m a copper
And as you can see
A copper 'as scruples
Of 'ighest degree…
…And I’ll turn a blind eye
To this Yank battery
j
PS: (Hideous anachronism warning) - this has nothing whatever to do with the thread, but I just have to share this. I confess, I used a 1987 Roget’s thesaurus to clean that up. Specifically, the synonyms of Probity, which include (quoting): “…truepenny, brick, trump, true Briton, white man…”. Sheesh.