I ate my fill of a whale that die… And stranded after a month at sea.… There is a pain in my inside. Why have the Gods afflicted me? Ow! I am purged till I am a wra…

The child of Mary Queen of Scots… A shifty mother’s shiftless son, Bred up among intrigues and plots, Learnèd in all things, wise in non… Ungainly, babbling, wasteful, weak…

ENGLAND’S on the anvil– hear t… Clanging from the Severn to the T… Never was a blacksmith like our N… England’s being hammered, hammered… England’s on the anvil! Heavy are…

NO DOUBT but ye are the People… Whoso speaks in your presence must… Bowing the head in worship, bendin… Bringing the word well smoothen—su… Fenced by your careful fathers, ri…

THE eldest son bestrides him, And the pretty daughter rides him, And I meet him oft o’ mornings on… And there kindles in my bosom An emotion chill and gruesome

OPEN the old cigar—box, get me a… For things are running crossways,… We quarrelled about Havanas—we fo… And I knew she is exacting, and s… Open the old cigar—box—let me cons…

We are very slightly changed From the semi—apes who ranged India’s Prehistoric clay; He that drew the longest bow Ran his brother down, you know,

As I was spittin’ into the Ditch… I seed a man on a man-o’-war got u… 'E was scrapin’ the paint from off… Sez 'e, “I’m a Jolly —'Er Majest… Now ‘is work begins by Gawd knows…

BEFORE 'TWAS NOT while England’s swor… Put half a world to flight, Nor while their new—built cities b… Secure behind her might;

Through the Plagues of Egyp’ we w… Gettin’ down an’ shovin’ in the su… An’ you might 'ave called us dirty… An’ you might ‘ave ’eard us talkin… But the Captain ‘ad ’is jacket, a…

Once on a time was a King anxious… What was the wisest thing a man co… Most of his population hurried to… Each with a long oration, each wit… They interrupted his meals —he was…

WHEN that with meat and drink th… Not temperately but like him conce… In monstrous jest at Meudon, whos… Stands for exemplar of Gargantuan… In his own name supreme, they issu…

How comes it that, at even—tide, When level beams should show most… Man, failing, takes unfailing prid… In memories of his frolic youth? Venus and Liber fill their hour;

BY THE well, where the bullocks… Silent and blind and slow— By the field where the young corn… In the face of the sultry skies, They have heard, as the dull Eart…

IN the days of lace—ruffles, peru… Brown Bess was a partner whom non… An out—spoken, flinty—lipped, braz… With a habit of looking men straig… At Blenheim and Ramillies fops wo…