proposition; but that it should fall into such hands--Hush, here he
comes!

[Pehr is led on by guards, who place him in the pillory and adjust
neck-irons. The populace nudge each other and point at him.
Shoemaker's company slightly embarrassed. Enter a lyre player and
an old blind woman, with a painted canvas on a pole. Old woman
sings and points at canvas, which is painted in six panels--one for
each stanza.]

OLD WOMAN.

There was a guileless youth
Who heard the people's wail;
Lawgivers sat in the square
And gaily quaffed their ale.

The youth to the people said:
"I would make your pathway fair!"
"There's trouble," the rulers cried,
"Sedition breeds in the air."

Still they sat in the square,
And still they quaffed their ale;
They talked of the people's good,
But heard not the people's wail.

The youth in the pillory stood,
For there he'd been given his place;
In the wag'nmaker's hen-coop the cock crew