DALILAH DE DARDY adored The very correctest of cards, LORENZO DE LARDY, a lord - He was one of Her Majesty’s Guar… DALILAH DE DARDY was fat,

When a merry maiden marries, Sorrow goes and pleasure tarries; Every sound becomes a song, All is right and nothing’s wrong! From to-day and ever after

O’er unreclaimed suburban clays Some years ago were hobblin’ An elderly ghost of easy ways, And an influential goblin. The ghost was a sombre spectral sh…

There grew a little flower ‘Neath a great oak tree: When the tempest ’gan to lower Little heeded she: No need had she to cower,

I cannot tell what this love may b… That cometh to all but not to me. It cannot be kind as they’d imply, Or why do these gentle ladies sigh… It cannot be joy and rapture deep,

Would you know the kind of maid Sets my heart a flame-a? Eyes must be downcast and staid, Cheeks must flush for shame-a! She may neither dance nor sing,

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 -

Sighing softly to the river Comes the loving breeze, Setting nature all a-quiver, Rustling through the trees! And the brook in rippling measure

Vast empty shell! Impertinent, preposterous abortion… With vacant stare, And ragged hair, And every feature out of all propo…

A tar, but poorly prized, Long, shambling, and unsightly, Thrashed, bullied, and despised, Was wretched JOE GOLIGHTLY. He bore a workhouse brand;

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…

Oh! a private buffoon is a light-h… If you listen to popular rumour; From morning to night he’s so joyo… And he bubbles with wit and good h… He’s so quaint and so terse, both…

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

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…

Oh, gentlemen, listen, I pray; Though I own that my heart has be… Of nature the laws I obey, For nature is constantly changing. The moon in her phases is found,