The Insolence of Office, illustration from 'Fashionable Bores or Coolers in High Life' by Peter...

Your friend the sheriff may borrow your Equipage on the morning you have engaged to drive a lady in your Tilbury; you have then no alternative but hiring, which might do well enough but for the tenacious memory of the keeper of the first gate you pass thro who demands your ticket pronouncing it you be an "ired set out" cause he knows the consarn as it often comes the road; you may have some chance of whisking by before he makes this discovery should your progress not be impeded by some obstruction; perhaps a flock of sheep, and you may as well submit to the Bore of producing your ticket, as yet cudgell'd by a merciless drover for running over his cattle.