‘The Three Degrees of a Rake’s Life’ in Flare-Up Songster in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) IV 276: But after that, what he is then, / She reads a curtain lecture, / He drops his snout, oh! pity men, / Of the pavement he’s inspector.at inspector of (the) pavements (n.) under pavement, n.