When rival adorers come courting a… There’s something or other may oft… Why HE should be pitched upon rat… This wasn’t the case with Old P… No soul could discover a reason at…

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

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,

Braid the raven hair, Weave the supple tress, Deck the maiden fair In her loveliness; Paint the pretty face,

If you want a receipt for that pop… Known to the world as a Heavy Dra… Take all the remarkable people in… Rattle them off to a popular tune! The pluck of LORD NELSON on b…

The REVEREND MICAH SOWLS, He shouts and yells and howls, He screams, he mouths, he bumps, He foams, he rants, he thumps. His armour he has buckled on, to w…

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

AN actor– GIBBS, of Drury Lane… Of very decent station, Once happened in a part to gain Excessive approbation: It sometimes turns a fellow’s brai…

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 -

A bishop once– I will not name hi… Annoyed his clergy in the mode con… From pulpit shackles never set the… And found a sin where sin was unin… All pleasures ended in abuse auric…

Brightly dawns our wedding day; Joyous hour, we give thee greeting… Whither, whither art thou fleeting… Fickle moment, prithee stay! What though mortal joys be hollow?

MACPHAIRSON CLONGLO… Was the son of an elderly labourin… You’ve guessed him a Scotchman, s… And p’r’aps altogether, shrewd rea… From the bonnie blue Forth to the…

Although of native maids the cream… We’re brought up on the English s… The best of all For great and small Who modesty adore.

Oh, foolish fay, Think you because Man’s brave array My bosom thaws I’d disobey

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