When Britain really ruled the wav… (In good Queen Bess’s time) The House of Peers made no preten… To intellectual eminence, Or scholarship sublime;

I’ve wisdom from the East and fro… That’s subject to no academic rule… You may find it in the jeering of… Or distill it from the folly of a… I can teach you with a quip, if I…

A proud Pasha was BAILEY BEN, His wives were three, his tails we… His form was dignified, but stout, Men called him “Little Roundabout… HIS IMPORTANCE

Take a pair of sparkling eyes, Hidden, ever and anon, In a merciful eclipse - Do not heed their mild surprise - Having passed the Rubicon.

The earth has armies plenty, And semi-warlike bands, I dare say there are twenty In European lands; But, oh! in no direction

EMILY JANE was a nursery maid, JAMES was a bold Life Guard, JOHN was a constable, poorly pai… (And I am a doggerel bard). A very good girl was EMILY JA…

Whene’er I poke Sarcastic joke Replete with malice spiteful, The people vile Politely smile

When first my old, old love I kne… My bosom welled with joy; My riches at her feet I threw; I was a love-sick boy! No terms seemed too extravagant

Once a fairy Light and airy Married with a mortal; Men, however, Never, never

When I was a lad I served a term As office boy to an Attorney’s fi… I cleaned the windows and I swept… And I polished up the handle of t… I polished up that handle so succe…

My boy, you may take it from me, That of all the afflictions accurs… With which a man’s saddled And hampered and addled, A diffident nature’s the worst.

When I first put this uniform on, I said, as I looked in the glass, “It’s one to a million That any civilian My figure and form will surpass.

DRAMATIS PERSONAE Sir Marmaduke Pointdextre, an El… Alexis, of the Grenadier Guards—… Dr. Daly, Vicar of Ploverleigh John Wellington Wells, of J. W.…

From east and south the holy clan Of Bishops gathered to a man; To Synod, called Pan-Anglican, In flocking crowds they came. Among them was a Bishop, who

It was a robber’s daughter, and he… Her father was the terror of a sma… Her mother was a foolish, weak, bu… But it isn’t of her parents that… As ALICE was a-sitting at her w…