#English
Mr. Blake was a regular out-and-o… Who was quite out of the pale of… He was in the habit of smoking a l… grog on a Sunday after dinner, And seldom thought of going to chu…
He is an Englishman! For he himself has said it, And it’s greatly to his credit, That he is an Englishman! For he might have been a Roosian,
(To be sung to the Air of “An 'O… Oh list to this incredible tale Of THOMSON GREEN and H… Its truth in one remark you’ll sum… “Twaddle twaddle twaddle twaddle t…
In enterprise of martial kind, When there was any fighting, He led his regiment from behind (He found it less exciting). But when away his regiment ran,
Weary at heart and extremely ill Was PALEY VOLLAIRE of Bromp… In a dirty lodging, with fever dow… Close to the Polygon, Somers Tow… PALEY VOLLAIRE was an only s…
When I went to the Bar as a very… (Said I to myself - said I), I’ll work on a new and original pl… (Said I to myself - said I), I’ll never assume that a rogue or…
I’VE painted SHAKESPEARE al… “An infant” (even then at “play”!) “A boy,” with stage-ambition rife, Then “Married to ANN HATHAWA… “The bard’s first ticket night” (o…
POLICEMAN PETER FORTH I… From his obscure retreat: He was a merry genial wag, Who loved a mad conceit. If he were asked the time of day,
If my action’s stiff and crude, Do not laugh, because it’s rude. If my gestures promise larks, Do not make unkind remarks. Clockwork figures may be found
Sir GUY was a doughty crusader, A muscular knight, Ever ready to fight, A very determined invader, And DICKEY DE LION’S deligh…
I knew a boor - a clownish card (His only friends were pigs and co… The poultry of a small farmyard), Who came into two hundred thousand… Good fortune worked no change in…
Quixotic is his enterprise, and ho… Who seeks for jocularities that ha… The world has joked incessantly fo… And every joke that’s possible has… I started as a humorist with lots…
Come with me, little maid, Nay, shrink not, thus afraid - I’ll harm thee not! Fly not, my love, from me - I have a home for thee -
Try we life-long, we can never Straighten out life’s tangled skei… Why should we, in vain endeavour, Guess and guess and guess again? Life’s a pudding full of plums
DRAMATIS PERSONAE Sir Marmaduke Pointdextre, an El… Alexis, of the Grenadier Guards—… Dr. Daly, Vicar of Ploverleigh John Wellington Wells, of J. W.…