The air is charged with amatory nu… Soft madrigals, and dreamy lovers’… Peace, peace, old heart! Why wak… The aching memory of the old, old… Time was when Love and I were wel…

I stole the Prince, and I brought… And left him, gaily prattling With a highly respectable Gondoli… Who promised the Royal babe to re… And teach him the trade of a timon…

[HE.] PRITHEE, pretty maiden… (Hey, but I’m doleful, willow, wi… Have you e’er a lover a-dangling a… Hey, willow waly O! I would fain discover

When the night wind howls in the c… moonlight flies, And inky clouds, like funeral shro… When the footpads quail at the nig… bay the moon,

KING BORRIA BUNGALEE BOO Was a man-eating African swell; His sigh was a hullaballoo, His whisper a horrible yell - A horrible, horrible yell!

Of all the youths I ever saw None were so wicked, vain, or sill… So lost to shame and Sabbath law, As worldly TOM, and BOB, and… For every Sabbath day they walked

DRAMATIS PERSONAE THE LEARNED JUDGE THE PLAINTIFF THE DEFENDANT COUNSEL FOR THE PLAINTI…

A clergyman in Berkshire dwelt, The REVEREND BERNARD PO… And in his church there weekly kne… At least a hundred souls. There little ELLEN you might se…

A rich advowson, highly prized, For private sale was advertised; And many a parson made a bid; The REVEREND SIMON MAGUS… He sought the agent’s: “Agent, I

Oh! my name is JOHN WELLI… I’m a dealer in magic and spells, In blessings and curses, And ever-filled purses, In prophecies, witches, and knells…

[THE DUKE.] Small titles and orders For Mayors and Recorders I get - and they’re highly delight… M.P.s baronetted,

BOB POLTER was a navvy, and His hands were coarse, and dirty t… His homely face was rough and tann… His time of life was thirty-two. He lived among a working clan

I once did know a Turkish man Whom I upon a two-pair-back met, His name it was EFFENDI KHAN BACKSHEESH PASHA BEN… A DOCTOR BROWN I also knew -

Some time ago, in simple verse I sang the story true Of CAPTAIN REECE, the… And all her happy crew. I showed how any captain may

“COME, collar this bad man - Around the throat he knotted me Till I to choke began - In point of fact, garotted me!” So spake SIR HERBERT WRITE