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

A LADY fair, of lineage high, Was loved by an Ape, in the days… The Maid was radiant as the sun, The Ape was a most unsightly one… So it would not do -

First you’re born - and I’ll be b… Find a dozen strangers round you. “Hallo,” cries the new-born baby, “Where’s my parents? which may the… Awkward silence– no reply –

There lived a King, as I’ve been… In the wonder-working days of old, When hearts were twice as good as… And twenty times as mellow. Good temper triumphed in his face,

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…

A man who would woo a fair maid, Should ‘prentice himself to the tr… And study all day, In methodical way, How to flatter, cajole, and persua…

OH! listen to the tale of little… She kept a small post-office in th… She loved a skilled mechanic, who… A gentle executioner whose name wa… I think I hear you say, “A dreadf…

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…

The law is the true embodiment Of everything that’s excellent. It has no kind of fault or flaw, And I, my lords, embody the Law. The constitutional guardian I

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…

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.

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.

“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