Chapter XII (part 2 of 2)
The Maclise Portrait Gallery of Illustrious Literary Characters, with Memoirs. By William Bates, B.A. London: Chatto & Windus, 1883.
A storehouse of information as to the history and origin of some of the best parodies in the language.
Vers de Société and Parody. By H. A. Page. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1883.
The Gentleman’s Magazine, February, 1884. “Charles Cotton,” by Rev. M. G. Watkins, contains an account of Cotton’s Burlesques. London: Chatto & Windus.
Chambers’s Journal, February 2, 1884. “The Muse of Parody.” Anonymous. London: W. & R. Chambers.
Burlesque Plays and Poems, with an Introduction, by Henry Morley. London: G. Routledge & Sons, 1885.
The Literary Remains of Charles Stuart Calverley, with a Memoir. By Walter J. Sendall. London: George Bell and Sons, 1885. This is interesting as throwing light on the composition of Calverley’s exquisite imitations.
The Saturday Review (London), February 14, 1885. An article “The Art of Parody” (anonymous), which was reprinted on p. 103, Vol. II. of this collection.
The Daily News (London), October 10, 1885. A leader on Charles Stuart Calverley’s Poems and Parodies.
Longman’s Magazine (London), October, 1886. An article, “The Ethics of Plagiarism,” by Brander Matthews.
Temple Bar (London), January, 1887. An article on Charles Stuart Calverley, and his Parodies.
The Whitehall Review (London), March 10, 1887. “Concerning Parodies.”
Family Herald, July 28, 1888. “Parodies.” Anonymous. London: William Stevens.
The Daily News (London), December 3, 1888. A leader on “Parody.”
Temple Bar (London), March, 1889. An anonymous paper on James Smith, and the Rejected Addresses, the greater part of which is borrowed from the Preface to the 18th edition (1833), of the R. A.
In Cap and Gown, Three Centuries of Cambridge Wit. Edited by Charles Whibley. London: Kegan, Paul, Trench & Co., 1889.
This contains some of the best parodies which have been published in Cambridge, with notes descriptive of the principal publications of the University.
The Daily News (London), June 21, 1889. A leader on Hamilton’s “Collection of Poems and Parodies in Praise of Tobacco.”
The Daily News (London), October 16, 1889. A leader on Mr. Charles Whibley’s “In Cap and Gown,” which see.
Famous Literary Impostures, a Series of Essays. By H. R. Montgomery. London: E. W. Allen.
Notes and Queries. London. See particularly March 25, 1871; June 26, 1880; June 25, 1887; July 30, 1887.
The Weekly Dispatch. London. In November, 1879, this paper commenced prize competitions which it has continued ever since. Parodies of well-known authors are often selected for these competitions, and many examples have been quoted in this collection.
The World. London. In July, 1879, this journal opened its columns to competitors for prizes, which were awarded for the best parodies of certain poems selected by the Editor. Many of these have also been quoted in Parodies.
END OF SIXTH, AND LAST, VOLUME.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] Written at the Crystal Palace Aquarium.
[2] J’entends.
[3] An adaptation of “Madonna mia.”
[4] See “The Gentleman’s Magazine,” Vol. 56, p. 427; also Boswell’s Life of Johnson, Vol. 10, p. 189――edition in 10 vols., published by John Murray, London, 1835.
[5] The lines in italics are usually omitted, as being too serious for the occasion. They allude to certain newspaper critics who were supposed to be present, and who became rather heated in their political expressions.
[6] A bawbling vessel was he captain of For shallow draught and bulk imprisible. SHAKESPEARE.
[7] In plain English, the Halfpenny-hatch, then a footway through fields; but now, as the same bards sing elsewhere――
“St. George’s Fields are fields no more, The trowel supersedes the plough; Swamps, huge and inundate of yore, Are changed to civic villas now.”
[8] Some extracts from this parody, with an illustration by Cruikshank, will be found in Vol. IV. Parodies, p. 102.
[9] John Kemble.
[10] Madame Catalani.
[11] “Company” understood.
[12] Cochin China Cock.
[13] Halliwell considered this rhyme to be at least 300 years old. He adds a fifth verse:――
“Jenny was so mad, She didn’t know what to do; She put her finger in her ear, And crackt it right in two.”
He also makes the last line of the fourth verse to read:――
And snapt off her nose,
which tragical dénouement is certainly that which is inculcated in all well-regulated nurseries.
[14] Slang for sixpence.
[15] Battenburg.
[16] Poem on Liberty, ver. 12.
[17] Ibid. ver. 16.
[18] Ibid. ver. 104.
[19] A poetical word for a Tobacco-box.
[20] Poem on Liberty, ver. 243, 245.
[21] Poem on Liberty, ver. 247.
[22] Ibid. ver. 309.
[23] Ibid. ver. 171.
[24] Antis i.e., Anti-smokers.
[25] An allusion to a phrase in Ruddigore.
[26] The term “drinking” tobacco was commonly used in the early days of smoking.
[27] An herb with which the hart is said to cure its wounds.
[28] Or, Swad out with the antro gilespians.
[29] See Hesio. Pro Mea benevolente. Act. Mediæv. Pp. 992. Quisque numjam satis, Vol. II., chap. 78, ¶XIV. Also, Hey Didhul Didhul Thecat anthef Hidul. ¶XI Pp. 672. Ib.
[30] Not found in the MSS. of the 29th century. Hunc Dune objected to by the English committee.
[31] This may also be rendered, “a long ways.”
[32] In the Vulgate, “like a California diamond.”
[33] The Morning Star, a London Liberal newspaper, founded in 1856.
[34] To enable the reader to realise more vividly the impressive solemnity of this ode, the number of welcomes has been put in Arabic numerals.
[35] Sir Francis Burdett, Radical M.P. for Westminster, and father of Lady Burdett Coutts.
[36] William Cobbett, M.P. for Oldham, an extraordinary man, who started life as a private soldier, and by his own unaided exertions acquired a position of considerable importance.
[37] Query――Paced?――Printers Devil.
[38] Fellows of Colleges are not so destitute of feeling as to forget their “OLD FRIEND.”
[39] Sir Richard Steele.
[40] Sir Richard Blackmore.
[41] Sir Richard Cox.
[42] Father of Mr. J. L. Toole, the popular comedian.
[43] Alfred Bunn, the lessee of Drury Lane Theatre, was a fortune to the small wits of the day. He wrote the librettos for some operas, which were neither better nor worse than the average of such productions. Punch bitterly attacked him, but he retaliated in “A word with Punch” which effectually silenced that individual.
Bunn brought out the wonderfully successful Operatic Singer, Jenny Lind. He died in 1860.
[44] Jullien organised the popular Promenade Concerts, with military bands, Army Quadrilles, &c.
[45] The Rape of the Bucket: An Heroi-comical Poem. Translated from the Italian of Tassoni by Mr. Ozell.
[46] Ringing the penance-bell was an expression which frequently occurred in Brown’s writings.
[47] Two celebrated coaches.
[48] The month in which the B.A. degree is taken and which in many instances, is the “finis fatorum;” at least to a great portion of the “bons vivans.”
[49] The celebrated Lord Chesterfield, whose Letters to his Son, according to Dr. Johnson, inculcate “the manners of a dancing master and the morals of a ――――,” &c.
[50] “Lord Mayor of the theatric sky.” This alludes to Leigh Hunt, who, in The Examiner, at this time kept the actors in hot water.
[51] All England Lawn-Tennis Club.
[52] President Hitquick Club.
[53] It would seem that the striking want of poetical justice in the usually-received termination of this otherwise excellent story, wherein none of the good people were made happy, and the wicked were most inadequately punished, had caused the author to tremble for his popularity among the female portion of the community――who, it is well known, will stand no liberties of that description. He has therefore (apparently) re-written it on more orthodox principles; or (not improbably) got somebody else to re-write it for him; or (as is barely possible) somebody else has re-written it for him without asking his leave. We have no means of ascertaining the exact state of the case. The reader is requested to form his own opinion, and let us know at his earliest convenience.――EDS. O. M.
[54] Not being a ghost, Corydon does not talk in the style of 1670.
[55] The subject and title of these papers bear some resemblance to Messrs. Griffith and Farran’s natty little republication of the selections from “Lord Chesterfield’s Letters to his Son,” entitled Manners and Speech, but a careful comparison will establish the dissimilarity.
[56] The Syndicate.
[57] One who betrays his companions.
[58] Share of the plunder.
[59] Burglary.
[60] Inform.
[61] Companions.
[62] Gentlemanly.
[63] Police officers.
[64] Old Bailey pleaders.
[65] Prison.
[66] Gunpowder.
[67] An experienced hand at stealing.
[68] Double-barrelled gun.
[69] Drink freely.
[70] Brandy.
[71] Depart.
[72] Fire.
[73] Transported.
[74] A hearty choke; i.e., hanging.
[75] A Burglary.
[76] Houses.
[77] Steal.
[78] Handkerchief.
[79] Skilful.
[80] Pass false notes.
[81] Watch.
[82] Hanged.
[83] Parson.
[84] Magistrate or judge.
[85] Handsomest wig.
[86] Prison.
[87] Ladies of a certain description.
[88] Comrades or fast friends.
[89] Thieves speak of themselves as “family-men.”
[90] Warders.
[91] Night.
[92] Meat and drink.
[93] A greenhorn.
[94] Tricks of the trade.
[95] Talking slang.
[96] Imprisoned.
[97] Up to prison ways.
[98] Writing.
[99] Thieves should pray on their knees.
[100] Highway-robbers, swell-mobsmen, burglars, and forgers.
[101] Slang names for Pentonville Model Prison, and Millbank Penitentiary.
[102] Whitechapel Swell.
[103] Actions.
[104] Flash.
[105] Half-penny.
[106] Hat.
[107] Eatables.
[108] Coat.
[109] Look.
[110] Trousers.
[111] The Throat.
[112] Flash.
[113] Vest.
[114] Pockets.
[115] Teetotaler.
[116] Sure place.
[117] Money.
[118] Pickpockets.
[119] Cross hands.
[120] A watch.
[121] Chain.
[122] Deceive.
[123] Gensd’armes.
[124] Salute.
[125] Shout.
[126] Public-house.
[127] Smoke a pipe.
[128] Paid a shilling.
[129] Gin.
[130] Humbug.
[131] Sherry.
[132] Mistress.
[133] Pork.
[134] Red herring.
[135] Lots of beer.
[136] The judges.
[137] Clothes.
[138] Neat.
[139] A fine young woman.
[140] Die.
[141] Drinks water or tea.
[142] Innkeeper.
[143] Tongue.
[144] Stole.
[145] Newgate.
[146] Pike it, to run off quickly.
[147] The Devil take.
[148] The beadle or constable.
[149] Beg Bread.
[150] Porridge.
[151] The day.
[152] Legs in the stocks.
[153] Break into a house.
[154] Get a whipping.
[155] Rob a beer shop.
[156] Cut a purse.
[157] Force a lock.
[158] Magistrate.
[159] Fetters.
[160] Hang on the gallows in the daylight.
[161] To go.
[162] Good, or well.
[163] Women.
[164] To look out.
[165] Goods.
[166] Lost.
[167] A good fellow.
[168] Money.
[169] A buxom wench.
[170] Suited me very well.
[171] To cover or conceal.
[172] Steal.
[173] To tell lies cleverly.
[174] A penny.
[175] The country.
[176] The house being alarmed.
[177] To hide in the woods.
[178] Thieves receiving house.
[179] Bacon.
[180] A beadle or Watchman.
[181] Do not brag of your booty.
[182] To rogues that are base.
[183] The girl on the look out.
[184] A counterfeit license.
[185] To beg.
[186] To break into each house.
[187] The man must run.
[188] Through hedge, ditch and field.
[189] Base fetters give the man his deserts.
[190] The jail.
[191] May the Devil take.
[192] Justice of the Peace.
[193] Drink, wench, and beershop, then good night.
[194] To hang on the gallows.
[195] By rogues betrayed.
[196] Long-home.
[197] London.
[198] Horse stealers.
[199] Carriage and Wagon pilferers, and Trunk lifters.
[200] Fancy man, sweetheart.
[201] Prisons.
[202] Handcuffs.
[203] A fool easily cheated by a woman.
[204] Refreshments.
[205] A ring, a watch, and a pair of pistols.
[206] Gin shops.
[207] Women and girls.
[208] Beggars with sham wooden legs, etc.
[209] To see you.
[210] Hats or caps.
[211] Beggars’ holiday.
[212] Constables.
[213] Justice of the Peace.
[214] Tramp.
[215] Head of a gang.
[216] Poultry thief.
[217] Horse stealer.
[218] Beggar.
[219] Avoid.
[220] One who sneaks into a house at dusk to admit his companions later on.
[221] Takes us to goal.
[222] Half-pennies.
[223] Rob him of his money.
[224] To spend his shilling.
[225] To treat the other prisoners.
[226] Girl.
[227] Hanging place.
[228] Knife.
[229] The moon.
[230] Light.
[231] Highwayman.
[232] “Cherry-coloured――black; there being black cherries as well as red.”――GROSE.
[233] Sword.
[234] Pistols.
[235] Highway-robbery.
[236] Pocket-book.
[237] Money.
[238] Bullets.
[239] The gallows.
[240] Ditto.
[241] Money.
[242] Man.
[243] Stripped.
[244] Fellow.
[245] A particular kind of pugilistic punishment.
[246] Kept an eye upon the other.
[247] Hands.
[248] Deceive them.
[249] Dyot Street, St. Giles’s, afterwards called George Street, Bloomsbury, was a well-known Rookery, where thieves, and other gentry, could obtain cheap accommodation.
[250] Beggars.
[251] A footman to hackney coaches, to water the horses, etc.
[252] To pick a pocket.
[253] To lay hold of notes or money.
[254] Steal handkerchiefs dexterously.
[255] Steal a watch.
[256] Pocket the chain and seals.
[257] Search for a pouch or pocket-book.
[258] Pocket-books are also called readers.
[259] An intended robbery.
[260] My hand is skilful.
[261] A disorderly vagabond.
[262] The lock-up.
[263] Gaoler.
[264] Running away.
[265] Frolicsome.
[266] An expert pickpocket.
[267] Night.
[268] Not to commit any offence punishable with death.
[269] The fine payable on capital conviction.
[270] Transported.
[271] Hanged.
[272] House-breaker.
[273] Highwayman.
[274] Pawned their clothes.
[275] The rope.
[276] Pocket handkerchief.
[277] Candles.
[278] Break your head.
[279] Neck.
[280] On the tapis (carpet).
[281] Regular nonsense.
[282] Talking.
[283] Walking.
[284] Eating and drinking.
[285] A sovereign.
[286] Look out, be on your guard.
[287] The gallows.
[288] A Foot pad.
[289] A Burglar.
[290] A Window thief.
[291] Steal the valuables.
[292] A pickpocket.
[293] A silly fop.
[294] A sneaking thief.
[295] One whose duty it is to hustle a person, whilst another robs him.
[296] A country man.
[297] One who hooks goods out of shop doors, and windows.
[298] A publichouse thief.
[299] A well-dressed sharper who performs the confidence trick, etc.
[300] A good-natured fool.
[301] Money.
[302] A wench.
[303] An easy dupe.
[304] Something dropped in the street as a lure.
[305] One caught in the act of stealing is considered a poor hand by his pals.
[306] A cow stealer.
[307] A child stealer.
[308] A poultry stealer.
[309] Members of the Canting Crew.
[310] and [311] Night and Day.
[312] See.
[313] My Girl.
[314] Return.
[315] Eyes.
[316] Strolling mock priest.
[317] Ducks and geese.
[318] Hang.
[319] Never “peach” or confess.
[320] Neck.
[321] Thieving business.
[322] A girl.
[323] Spoke flash.
[324] Drink and food.
[325] Beer.
[326] Thieving way.
[327] Bed.
[328] Nose.
[329] Pockets.
[330] Fingers.
[331] Sovereigns.
[332] Seals.
[333] The parson at Newgate.
[334] Saying prayers.
[335] Pickpockets.
[336] Morning work at thieving.
[337] A proof with many errors in it.
[338] When any words have erroneously been set up twice.
[339] This was an error, as the Catechism had previously appeared in a daily paper.
[340] Lord Chancellor Eldon.
[341] Lord Castlereagh.
[342] Lord Sidmouth.
[343] Triangle, s. a thing having three sides; the meanest and most tinkling of all musical instruments; machinery used in military torture.――DICTIONARY.
[344] All-twattle; Twattle, v. n. to prate, gabble, chatter, talk idly.――ENTICK’S DICTIONARY.
[345] Robert Southey, the Poet Laureate.
[346] Sir Robert Walpole.
[347] George III., then insane.
[348] Covent Carden.
[349] Sir Cecil Wray, the Ministerial Candidate, who proposed to put a tax on female servants.
[350] This prophecy was afterwards strangely fulfilled, for the Sultan was run upon rocks and sunk. The Duke of Edinburgh was not on board at the time, but he was in command on the station, and under his directions ineffectual efforts were made to save the vessel. These having failed, a Court of Enquiry was held, of which it has not been deemed prudent to publish any report. It would obviously be exceedingly unprofessional to impute negligence or incompetence to a Royal Duke who condescends to accept the title and the pay of an Admiral.
The vessel was afterwards raised, and taken into port by a firm of contractors.
INDEX.
The Authors of the original poems are arranged in alphabetical order; the titles of the original poems are printed in italics, followed by the Parodies. The Authors of the Parodies are named in italics.
A Bibliography of the Parodies of Charles Dickens 224 A Bibliography of French Parodies 323 Bibliography of Scriptural Parodies 312 Books and Periodicals dealing with Parody 345 Books of Reference on Slang, Cant, and “Argot” 282 Burlesques of Educational Works 328 English Burlesques of the Classics 325 Literary Forgeries and Impostures 322 Mock Heroic Poems 179 Plays founded on Charles Dickens’s Novels 226 Theatrical Burlesques and Travesties 331
Ballades; Rondeaus; Villanelles, etc.
The Ballade (See Swinburne). The Ballade in Bad Weather. J. Ashby Sterry 64 A Ballade of Old Metres 64 A Young Poet’s Advice 64 Ballade of Old Law Books 65 Ballade of the Honest Lawyer 65 Ballade of Leading Cases 65 Ballade of the Timid Bard 65 Ballade of a Ballade Monger. G. White 85 Ballade of Primitive Man. Andrew Lang 85 Ballade of Primitive Woman. American 85 The Doom of the Muses. H. D. Traill 86 Austin Dobson――Andrew Lang 86 Ballade of the Best Pipe 145 Ballade of Tobacco 145 The Villanelle 65 J’ay perdu ma tourterelle 66 When I saw you last, Rose 66 A Villanelle, after Oscar Wilde 66 The Street Singer. Austin Dobson 66 Culture in the Slums. W. E. Henley 66 In Wain! Punch 67 Jean Passerat, I like thee well 87 It’s all a trick. W. W. Skeat 87 We are Cook’s Tourists. H. C. Bunner 87 Dewy-eyed with shimmering hair 88 The Triolet (in a Temper) 67 Le premier jour du mois de mai 67 I wished to sing my love 67 How to fashion a Triolet 67 Triolets by Austin Dobson 86 With Pipe and Book 146 The Rondeau (in a Rage) 67 Ma foi, c’est fait de moi 68 You bid me try. Austin Dobson 68 Why do I wander wildly? 68 Culture in the Slums. W. E. Henley 68 That dear old Tune 86 In corsets laced 87 Chant Royal. Behold the Deeds. H. E. Bunner 68 Rondels. Two Rondels 68 You bet! you hear me 86 We have a most erotic bard 86 In a Cloud of smoke 146 Roundel. The cat that sings 87
Robert Browning.
Mr. R. Browning’s objection to Parodies 46 Waitress, with eyes so marvellous black 19 A Motto! Just a catch-word 26 How they brought the Good News from Ulundi to Landsman’s Drift. The World 47 How I won the Challenge Shield 47 The Pied Piper of Hamelin 48 The Bagpiper of Midlothian 48 The Red Piper of Westminster 49 Poets and Linnets. Tom Hood 49 The Quest of Barparlo. Judy 49 Wanting is――what? Browning is――what? 49 Loving is――what? 49 Wooing is――what? 50 A Billiard Mystery 50 Come is the Comer 50 The Lost Leader. The Latest News. Fun 50 A Story of Girton 51 The Losing Leader 52 The Patriot, and two Parodies 51 A Parleying with a certain person of no importance (Joseph Chamberlain) 51 Two Sides 52 My Kate 52 Lays of a Lover 52 Post Chronology. O. M. Brown 52 R. Browning’s Lines on the “Jubilee,” and a Parody 52 The Poets at Tea 52 Angelo orders his Dinner. Bayard Taylor 53 Any Pleader to any Student 53 The Cock and the Bull. C. S. Calverley 53 John Jones. The Heptalogia 54 Articles on Robert Browning’s Poems 54 Browning Societies 54 Take them, Chum, the book and me together 55
Austin Dobson.
This was the Pompadour’s Fan 61 A Ballade of the Grosvenor Gallery 61 A Ballade of Five o’clock Tea 62 Ballade of Pot-Pourri 62 Other Ballades 62, 64 Tu Quoyue (by permission) 62 An Idyll of the Lobby. Pall Mall 63 The Prodigals. W. E. Henley 63
John Dryden.
Alexander’s Feast 169 Shakespeare’s Feast, 1769 170 Prancer’s Feast, 1779 171 The Grand Portsmouth Puppet-show, 1786 171 The Covent Garden Row. (O. P.) 1810 172 Sir Francis Burdett’s Feast, 1814 172 Commemoration Day, 1824 172 Ode to a Wrangler’s Spread 173 The Kennington Common Revolution, 1848 173 Josh Hudson’s Feast 174 Alexander (Henderson’s) Feast, 1884 175 Three Poets, in three distant ages born 175 Parallel passages and imitations 176 The Hind and the Panther. The Country Mouse and the City Mouse 176
John Keats.
Who killed John Keats? 193 La Belle Dame sans merci 193 Ode on a Jar of Pickles. Bayard Taylor 193 A thing of Beauty is a joy for ever A Locomotive is a joy for ever 194
Frederick Locker-Lampson.
Biographical Notes 55, 85 St. James’s Street, and a pirated version 56 St. Giles. Henry S. Leigh 57 Tempora Mutantur! and a Parody 57 Bramble Rise 57 A song at Sixty 57 His Girl 58 An Invitation to Rome 58 Mr. Gladstone in Rome 58 From the Cradle, and a Parody 58 A Gallery of Fair Women 59 Something Praedesque. Mortimer Collins 59 London’s “Suez Canal.” H. C. Pennell 60 Songsters of the Day. Time 60 On Frederick Locker 61
Nursery Rhymes.
Introductory Notes 101 The House that Jack built 101 Hebrew version 101 Political Parodies of this Rhyme 102 Version written for the O. P. Riots 103 Parodies in The Ingoldsby Lyrics 103 The Palace that Nash built 103 The Crystal Palace that Fox built 103 The House that Barry built 103 The Water that John drinks 104 The Show that Sham built 104 The Mine that Lyon struck 104 The Land of Austra-lia 104 The Ship that Jack built 104 The House that John built 104 This is the Radical Bradlaugh 104 This is the Face that Art made 105 The House that any one built 105 The Bicycle that Jack made 105 The House that Tithe built 105 The Mitchelstown Murders 106 This is the Toy. Truth. 106 The Boat that Jack built 106 Behold the Mansion reared by Daedal Jack. E. L. Blanchard 106 The Jubilee Coercion Bill 107 The House that Bowen built 107 The Domiciliary Edifice erected by John 107 A Sermon on this Rhyme 108 Mary had a Little Lamb Austin Dobson’s Version 88 Robert Browning’s Version 88 H. W. Longfellows’s Version 88 Andrew Lang’s Version 88 A. C. Swinburne’s Version 88 Parodies on “Mary had a Little Lamb” 125 Sing a Song of Sixpence 108 Latin Versions 108, 109 The Song of the Cover. Bentley’s Miscellany 108 French Version 109 Sing a Song of Christmas 109 A Version in “Pidgin” English 109 Carol forth a Canticle 109 Sing a Song of Season 109 Sing a Song of Dollars 110 Sing a Song of Native Art 110 Sing a Song of Gladness 110 The Cabman’s Shelter. Punch 110 The Song of Science 110 The English Illustrated Magazine 110 Fifty Thousand nimble Shillings 111 Sing a Song of Jingo 111 Sing a Song of Eightpence 111 Sing a Song of Saving 111 The Jubilee Coinage 111 Sing a Song of Gladstone 111 Sing a Song of Scaffolds, of Gunnery, of French Pence, of Chamberlain, of Armaments, of Tricksters, of Libels, of Dynamite 112 Who killed Cock Robin? Who’ll teach the Prince? Punch, 1843 114 Who killed these Arabs? 114 Who killed Home Rule? 114 Who killed Gladstone? 115 Who won Miss Jenny? 115 Who’ll kill Coercion? 116 Who stole O’Brien’s Breeches? 116 Who killed Cock Warren? 122 Jack and Jill, and Parodies 116, 122 Hey! Diddle Diddle 117 An Æsthetic Version 117 Mr. Escott’s Version 117 This Pig went to Market. Latin Version 116 The Bells of London Town, and Parodies 113 Mistress Mary, and a Latin Version 117 A Revised Edition 118 Political Parodies 118 Old Mother Hubbard, as a Sermon 118 Little Jack Horner, Latin Versions 119 Little Lord Randy 119 Thirty Days hath September 123 A French Version 123 Dirty days hath September 123 A Summery Summary 123 Mems. for 1885 123 The Three Jovial Huntsmen The Three Jolly Ratsmen 124 The Three Jovial Welshmen 124 Three Children Sliding on the Ice 124 A Latin Version 124 Thank you, Pretty Cow that made 125 Thank you, Pretty Spotted Snake 125 What are you doing, my Pretty Maid? 128 Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star 122, 161 Mica, mica, parva Stella 161 Tinkle, tinkle horrid bell 161 Monument to Temple Bar 162 Shine with Irregular Light 162 Sprinkle, Sprinkle, Water Cart 162 Twinkle, twinkle, Morning Star 162 Tinkle, tinkle, Tramway Car 163 Twinkle, twinkle, Prosecu_tar_ 163 Wrinkles, wrinkles, Solar Star 163 Tyndall, Tyndall, Learned Star 163 Twinkle, twinkle, Little Arc 163 Twinkle, twinkle, Boulanger 164 The Spider and the Fly, by Mary Howitt 164 Will you Migrate to New Zealand 165 The Song of the Bank Director 165 The Irish Spider and the English Fly 166 Will you Walk into our Death-trap? 166 Harcourt and Chamberlain 166 Will you Walk into my Convent? 167 Will you Walk into my Tunnel? 167 Pray Come along to Hawarden 167 ―――― Taffy was a Welshman 119 What are Little Boys Made of 120 Dickory, dickory dock 120 Multiplication is Vexation 120 Please to Remember the 5th November 121 Privations Sore 121 Humpty Dumpty 123 Babye Bunting 123 I Love Little Pussy 125 If I had a Donkey 127 Halliwell-Halliwell, My Pretty Man 167 When Great Victoria Ruled the Land 167 I do not like Thee, Dr. Fell 168 I love Thee not Nell 169 Jan, je ne t’aime point 169
Parodies and Poems in Praise of Tobacco.
J. H. BROWNE’S Imitations of Colley Cibber, A. Phillips, J. Thomson, E. Young, A. Pope, and Jonathan Swift, entitled “A Pipe of Tobacco” 129 LORD BYRON. I Had a Dream 135 C. S. CALVERLEY’S Ode to Tobacco 139 Hand me Another Spill 139 E. COOK. I Love It! I Love It! 134 BARRY CORNWALL. The Pipe, the Pipe 138 ABRAHAM COWLEY. The lazy Earth doth Steam amain 148 T. GRAY. Elegy on an Old Pipe Box 131 MRS. HEMANS. The Stately Pipes of England 135 O. W. HOLMES. Hymn to St. Nicotine 137 THOMAS HOOD. I Remember, I Remember 134 HORACE. An Ode Against Tobacco 131 C. KINGSLEY. Three Antis went Groaning 138 H. W. LONGFELLOW. Beware! 139 Tobacco Smoke 139 Song of Firewater 140 Song of Nicotine 140 Tell me not in Penny Numbers 140 Come to Me! oh, my Meerschaum 141 The Pipe and the Quid 141 T. MOORE. ’Tis a last choice Havana 133 ’Tis the last Weed of Hudson’s 133 ’Tis my last Mild Havana 134 The Butcher boy down the Road 134 Oh! the Days are gone 134 MY Mother. My Hookah! 136 A Pinch of Snuff! 136 My Pipe, Love! 136 My True Cigar! 137 Tobacco! 137 The Weed 137 A Smoke 137 MRS. NORTON. Smoke not, smoke not 135 A. C. SWINBURNE. Another match 141 Ballade of more Burdens, “This is the cause of every smoker’s ire” 142 W. SHAKESPEARE. To smoke or not to smoke 132 R. B. SHERIDAN. Here’s to the hookah 132 WALTER SCOTT. Hail to the plant! 133 The weed was rank 133 ALFRED TENNYSON. The Cigar Smokers 142 Nicotina! 144 O, Darling weed! 144 I come from vaunted root 145 WORDSWORTH’S Sonnet. Scorn not the meerschaum 136 SONG from the Mikado 145 BALLADE of the Best Pipe 145 BALLADE of Tobacco 145 IN a Cloud of Smoke. Rondel 146 WITH Pipe and Book 146 ON an empty Tobacco Pouch 146 THE Smoker’s Alphabet 146
FIRST LINES OF SONGS IN PRAISE OF TOBACCO.
A Poet’s Pipe am I 155 A Small Boy puffed at a Big Cigar 158 As the Years vanish, Darling 159 Borne from a Short Frail Pipe 152 Certain Fumeur Courtisait une Veuve 149 Come, Lovely Tube by Friendship Blest 152 Contre Les Chagrins de La Vie 153 Contented I sit with my Pipe 153 Charm of the Solitude I Love 155 Come! don’t refuse Sweet Nicotina 157 Critics avaunt, Tobacco is my theme 149 Doux charme de ma Solitude (and Translation) 152 Good, good indeed the Herb’s good Weed 148 For lack o’Tobacco 152 Hail! Social Pipe――thou Foe to care 152 Je suis la Pipe d’un Auteur (and Translation) 155 I flirted first with Cigarettes 150 I owe to Smoking, more or less 159 I sing the Song of the Cigarette 159 J’ ai du bon Tabac 160 Knows he that never took a Pinch? 160 Keep me at hand 157 Let no cold Marble o’er my Body rise 152 Luscious Leaf of Fragrant Savour 149 May the Babylonish curse. Charles Lamb 150 Molière on Tobacco 160 My Pipe to me, thro’ gloom and glee 156 Once your Smoothly Polished Face 154 Pig Tail to Chor (A Letter) 147 Plains-moi, Philippe, mon ami 154 Pipe my Darling, Fate is Snarling 155 Sweet Smoking Pipe 152 Some Praise taking Snuff 154 Some sombre evening, when I sit 155 Some sigh for this and that 157 Smoke, do you? 158 The Pungent, Nose Refreshing Weed 160 The Mighty Thebes 158 The Warmth of thy Glow 158 The Sky it was dark 157 Three Hundred Years ago or soe 157 Thou Cheering Friend 155 Tube, I Love thee as my Life 152 Tell me, Shade of Walter Raleigh 150 Thrice Happy Isles that stole the World’s Delight 149 The Indian Weed withered quite 147 Two Maiden Dames of Sixty-two 148 The Lazy Earth doth steam amain 148 Was this small Plant for thee 147 Weed of the Strange Power 148 When Happy quite and Cosy grown 150 When my Pipe burns bright and clear 153 Why should Life in sorrow be spent 153 When Nobs come oot to walk aboot 154 When Life was all a Summer Day 156 Who Scorns the Pipe? 156 When Strong Perfumes 160 Yes, Social Friend, I Love thee well 158
Political Parodies.
Anticipation. R. Tickell, 1778 315 Kings’ and Queens’ Speeches to the Houses of Parliament 316 Punch’s Proclamation, 1878 318 “Ads” of the Future 318 Limited Liability. Daily News 319 Political Manifestoes 319 Saunderson and Waring 319 The Hawarden Block Wood Company 320 Mr. W. E. Gladstone’s Last Will 321 Letters from Political Leaders 321
Prose Parodies.
Addison (Joseph). Prefatory Paper, by 207 Acts of Parliament. On Evening Parties, and on Ladies’ Dress 268 Admiralty Reforms 270 Ainsworth (W. H.), Novels 258 Black, William. Parodies on his Novels 259 Blessington, Countess of. Parodies of 259 Boyle, Robert. Dean Swift’s Parody of 261 Braddon, Miss M. E., Dr. Marchmont’s Misery 257 Selina Sedilia. Bret Harte 259 Bret Harte. The Luck of Tory Camp 242 His Finger. Shotover Papers 243 Brontë, Charlotte. Miss Mix. Bret Harte 259 Broughton, Rhoda. Gone Wrong. F. C. Burnand 259 Bürger G. A. Baron Munchausen, & Imitations 260 Burnaby, Colonel F. The Ride to Khiva, F. C. Burnand 259 Burnett, Mrs. F. H. The Real Little Lord Fauntleroy 255 Carlyle, Thomas. Carlyle on Bloomerism 211 On the Tichborne Trial 211 On Mr. Gladstone’s Portrait 212 On the Parliamentary “Closure” 213 On People of the Present 213 On the Inventories 213 On “The Biglow Papers” 214 Carlyle Redivivus 215 On the Oxford Commemoration 229 The Irish Revolution, 1848 229 Cervantes, Miguel. Parodies of Don Quixote 259 Chesterfield, Lord. Chesterfield Travestie, 1808 253 Lady Chesterfield’s Letters to her daughter 253 Good manners, Punch 253 Churchill, Lord Randolph. The Standard’s varying estimate of him in 1885, 1888 & 1889 256 Cœlebs in Search of a Wife, imitated 259 Collins, Wilkie. The Woman in Tights 242 No Title. Bret Harte 242 The Moonstone & Moonshine 259 Conway, Hugh. Much Darker Days 259 Hauled Back. 1885 259 Day, Thomas. The New History of Sandford & Merton, F. C. Burnand 259 Defoe, Daniel. Imitations of Robinson Crusoe 259 De Quincey, Thomas. A Recent Confession of an Opium Eater 253 Dickens, Charles. Chronological List of his principal Works 224 Parodies from the World, 1879 215 The Age of Lawn Tennis, Pastime 216 C. S. Calverley’s Examination Paper on “Pickwick” 217 Death of Mr. Pickwick 218 The Battle Won by the Wind 218 The Haunted Man. Bret Harte 219 Dombey & Sons, Finished 221 Hard Times, refinished. R. B. Brough 223 The Political Mrs. Gummidge. Punch 224 The Mudfog Association Papers 228 Sam Weller’s Adventures 228 List of Parodies & Imitations of Dickens’s Works 225 Plays founded upon Dickens’s Novels 226, 259 Disraeli, Benjamin (Lord Beaconsfield), Lothaw Bret Harte 238 Codlingsby, W. M. Thackeray 239 Nihilism in Russia. The World 239 De Tankard. Puppet Show 240 Tancredi. Cuthbert Bede 241 Ben D’ymion. H. F. Lester 241 The Age of Lawn Tennis 241 A Key to Endymion 242 A Plagiarism, by B. Disraeli 242 A List of Minor Parodies 259 Dumas, Alexander. The Ninety-nine Guardsmen 250 Fielding, Henry. Imitations of Tom Jones 259 Forbes, Archibald. His egotistical style 254 Gore, Mrs. Mammon’s Marriage 259 Haggard, H. Rider, He, 1887 257 “She” dramatised 257 She-that-ought-not-to-be-Played 257 Hee-Hee. Punch 257 Me, a Companion to She 257 King Solomon’s Wives 257 Hugo, Victor. Anticipations of the Derby, 1869 244 One and Three. Punch 247 Thirty-one. C. H. Waring 248 Fantine. Bret Harte 248 Grinplaine. Walter Parke 248 Quel bonheur Marie? 249 The House that Victor built 249 The Spoiler of the Sea 249 The Cat 249 A Manifesto by Victor Hugo 250 Hume, Fergus W. Mystery of a Wheelbarrow 259 James, G. P. R. Parodies of 260 Dr. Johnson’s Ghost on “Drury Lane Theatre” 208 On Book binders, after “Rasselas” 209 Anonymous Journalism 209 Lexiphanes 209 Dinarbas 209 Labouchere, Henry, and Edmund Yates 255 Lamb, Charles. Our New Actors. The World 233 Lever, Charles, Parodies of 260 Lytton, Lord. Parodies of his Plays 251 The Diamond Death. Puppet Show 251 The Dweller of the Threshold. Bret Harte 252 On a Toasted Muffin. Cuthbert Bede 253 The Wrongful Heir. Walter Parke 260 Macaulay, T. B. The Quarterly Reviewer parodies him 234 A Page by Macaulay 234 A Bit of Whig his-Tory 235 The next Armada 235 The Age of Lawn-Tennis 236 The Story of Johnnie Armstrong 236 Marryat, Captain. Mr. Midshipman Breezy. Bret Harte 243 The Flying Dutchman. W. E. Aytoun 232 Menagérie, The. Burlesque Lecture by C. Collette 269 Menu. Ministerial Whitebait Dinner, 1878 261 Menu, by Miss Louisa Alcorn 262 Menu. Capital Club Dinner, 1885 262 Lady Morgan’s Wild Irish Girl 254 Munchausen, Baron. Ascribed to G. A. Burger 260 Imitations of 260 Office Rules 268 On Farming 269 “Ouida.” Moll Marine. Light Green 231 The Cambridgeshire Stakes 231 Strapmore. F. C. Burnand 232 Bluebottles. Judy 232 Blue-blooded Bertie. Walter Parke 260 Pepys, Samuel. Imitations of his Diary 260 Prescription for feelin’ bad 262 Programmes. Lords Mayor’s Show, 1884 262 How they’ll open the Inventories 263 Lord Mayor’s Show, 1885 264 Lord Mayor’s Show, 1886 264 Play Bill by Rev. Rowland Hill 265 Prospectuses. Imperial Homeless Hotel Company 266 The Glenmutchkin Railway 266 The Gott-up Hotel Company 266 Horse Shoe Hotel Prospectus 266 Quill Toothpick Attachment Company 267 Reade, Charles. A Parody by F. C. Burnand 260 Regulations in the U.S. Navy 269 Reid, Captain Mayne. The Pale Faced Warriors 244 The Skull Hunters. Walter Parke 244 Richardson, Samuel. Joseph Andrews 257 Apology for Shamela Andrews 257 The History of Clorana, 1737 257 John Ruskin. “That Little Brown-red Butterfly” 229 Mark Twain’s Parody 230 On all Fours Clavigera. Punch 230 On Toothpicks. Shotover Papers 230 Pre-Raffaelitism. Rev. E. Young, 1857 231 Letter to Chesterfield 258 Letter lo the Richmond Baptists 258 On Usury, a Biblical Parody 312 Scott, Sir Walter. Parodies of his Novels 260 Sketchley, Arthur. Mrs. Brown at Cambridge 237 Smart, Hawley. What’s the Odds? F. C. Burnand 260 Smith, Horace. Whitehall, 1827 260 Soyer, Alexis. Camp Cookery 254 The Art of Cookery 254 Military Cookery Book. Punch 254 Stephenson R. L., Parodies of 260 Sterne (Laurence). A Sentimental Journey 209 Affecting Appeal 210 The Citizen 211 Fragments in the manner of L. Sterne, and other Imitations 211 Sue Eugene. Sir Brown. Cuthbert Bede 250 Parodie du Juif Errant, and an English Translation 250 Swift, Jonathan. Parodies and Imitations 261 Thackeray, W. M. Parodies of his Novels 261 Trollope, Anthony. Parodies of his Novels 261 Walton, Izaak. The Complete (ly) done Angler 251 The Incompleat Angler 251 Walton’s Angler Imitated 251 Yates, Edmund. “Ba! Ba! Black Sheep” 261
Religious Parodies.
No Parodies introduced which have a tendency to ridicule Religion 288 The Protestants Ave Mary, 1689 288 A Parodie by George Herbert, 1633 289 Luther’s Parody of the Psalms 289 William Hone’s Three Trials 289 John Wilkes’s Catechism 289 The Political Litany 291 The Sinecurist’s Creed 293 Parodies of the Litany 294 The Book Lover’s Litany 297 Parodies of the Creed of St. Athanasius 298 England’s Te Deum to George III 301 Parodies of the Catechism 302 Imitations of the Lord’s Prayer 305 Parodies of the X Commandments 305 Richard Carlile’s Parodies 307 Administration of Loaves and Fishes 307 Chronicles of the Kings of England 309 Imitations of Biblical Phraseology 309 Blackwood’s Chaldee Manuscript 310 The Bible of the Future 310 The Origin of Species. C. Neaves 311 The Positivists. Mortimer Collins 311 Bibliography of Scriptural Parodies 312 A Dean and a Prebendary 314 Parodies of Hymns 314 God Save the Queen 315
Alexander Pope.
Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day 176 Ode to Toast-Master Toole. Punch, 1843 177 Ode to Lessee Bunn, of Drury Lane 177 Bonnell Thornton’s Burlesque Ode 178 Mock Heroic Poems, Parodies or Imitations of the Dunciad and the Rape of the Lock 179 The Essay on Man. The Essay on Woman 182 Eloisa’s Epistle to Abelard. Eloisa en Déshabille 182 Elegy in an Empty Assembly Room 183 Les Amours d’Abélard et d’Eloise 183 The Rape of the Lock. The Rape of the Smock 182 The Rape of the Bucket 183 The Rape of the Cake 185 Lo! The Poor Indian, whose Untutor’d Mind 183 Lo! the poor Toper 183 Lo! the lean Indian 183 The Universal Prayer 183 Achilles Speech, a Parody of 184 As when the Moon. As when an Alderman 184 Pope’s Prologue to Addison’s “Cato,” Parody of 185 Pope’s Imitations of the early Poets 186
Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
The Blooming Damozel 26 Sister Helen. Apple, and Orange, and Nectarine 70 O Mother Carey, Mother! 70 Mother Eve. Mabel Peacock 70 O, Weary Mother, Drive the Cows to Roost 71 A Twilight Fantasy 71 O, for a Brandy and Soda 71 Butter, and Eggs, and a Pound of Cheese. C. S. Calverley 71 Paper, and Pens, and a Bottle of Ink 72 Agriculture’s Latest Rôle. Punch 72 O, the Dinner was Fine to see. Truth 72 I would I were a Cigarette 73 Ah Night! Blind Germ of Days to be 73 A Goodly Balance is Fair to see 73 O, London Town 74 Cimabuella. Bayard Taylor 74 A Legend of Camelot. Punch 75 The Leaf Imitazione 75 De la tige détachée 75 Thou Poor Leaf. Lord Macaulay 75 Remember, by Miss Christina Rossetti 76 Remember it. Judy 76 Ding Dong. The Light Green 76
George R. Sims.
Ostler Joe. (By Permission) 35 Teamster Jim. R. J. Burdette 37 “Ostler Joe” and Mrs. J. B. Potter 37 Hustler Jim 37 Billy’s Rose, (By Permission.) 38 Billy’s Nose. F. Rawkins 39 The Lifeboat. The Tricycle. Cassell’s Journal 39 The Terror of Tadger’s Rents 40 Another “Bagonet” Ballad 40 The Ballad Monger 43 Little Flo’. Truth 43 The Coster’s Plea 44 The Lights of London Town 42 Those Wights of London Town 42 The Lights o’ Ascot Heath 42 Sally 44 Christmas Day in the Beer House 45 A Coster’s Conversion 45
Slang, Cant, and Flash Songs.
The House Breaker’s Song 271 Nix my Dolly, Pals, Fake away 271 Dear Bill, this Stone Jug 271 The Chick-a-Leary Cove 272 The Thieves’ Chaunt 272 Dartmoor is a tidy place 272 Joe quickly his sand had Sold 272 Millbank for thick shins 272 The Beggar’s Curse (1609) 273 Clear out――Look sharp 273 Frisky Moll’s Song 273 Ye Morts and ye Dells 274 Ode to the King of the Mendicants 274 Oath of the Canting Crew 274 Life and Death of the Darkman’s Budge 274 The Game of High Toby 275 The Double Cross 275 Flash Anecdote, and Translation 275 The Leary Man 276 Song of the Young Prig 276 Death of Socrates 277 ’Arry at a Political Picnic 277 Life in Gaol. The Chequers 279 The Twenty Craftsmen 279 Retoure my Dear Dell 280 The Pickpockets’ Chaunt 280 A Cant Handbill 281 W. H. Ainsworth on Slang and Cant 281 The Printer’s Epitaph 282 Books of Reference on Slang and Cant 282 Continental Books on “Argot,” or Slang 285 American and Colonial Slang 285
Algernon Charles Swinburne.
Before the Beginning of Years 1 American Parody 1 Before the Beginning of Post 1 Now in the Railway Years 2 For Winter’s Rains and Ruins are Over 2 For Mayfair’s Balls and Ballets are over 2 Dolores and Poems and Ballads 2 When Waters are Rent with Commotion 2 Pain and Travel. Fun 5 Our Lady Champagne. Judy 6, 26 Mosquitos Again. J. B. Stephens 6 Brandy and Soda. H. Howard 7 Our M.D. of Spain. Punch 7 Octopus. The Light Green 8 Procuratores. Shotover Papers 8 Oh, Vanished Benevolent Bobby 8 Oh, Nymph with the Nicest of Noses 9 O Blood-bitten Lip all Aflame 16 Stylites. Walter Parke 18 Thou Magpie and Stump 22 The Days of the Dunces are Over 31 All pale from the past we draw nigh thee 33 “Disgust,” a Parody of “Despair” 22 O Season supposed of all Free Flowers 22 I trow, Wild Friends. S. K. Cowan 23 Ah! Love, if Love lie still. J. M. Lowry 23 Also Thine Eyes were Mild 23 The God and the Damosel, 1879. The World 23 Soft is the Smell of it 24 I See the Sad Sorrow 24 A. C. Swinburne and Victor Hugo 25 The Pigmy and Portative Horner 26 I Sing of the Months 27 I am the Lady of Shalott 27 Strophes from a Song after Moonrise 28 Is not this the First Lord of Your Choice? 31 The Ballad of Burdens 3 A Burden of Foul Weathers 3 The Burden of Strange Seasons 4 The Burden of Long Fielding 4 The Burden of Hard Hitting 5 The Burden of Old Women 5 How Jack Harris became Æsthetic 17 The Lay of Macaroni. Bayard Taylor 17 To Ada I. Menken. The Tomahawk 18 Parody of A. C. S. by Mortimer Collins 19 “O Cool in the Summer is Salad.” 19 Between the Gate Post and the Gate 21 A Song after Sunset 21 Oh, April Showers 21 “The Heptalogia.” Nephelidia 21 Ballad of Dreamland. I hid my Head on a Rug from Moses 17 The Sorest stress of the Season’s over 18 She hid herself in the Soirée Kettle 16 A Century of Roundels 25 Far-fetched and dear bought 25 What Gain were mine 25 Magician of Song and of Sound 25 A Trio of Roundels 26 March. An Ode 26 Another Ode to March 27 The Commomweal 29 The Question 29 The Answer. The Daily News 29 The “Question” answered. Truth 29 A Match. “If Love were what the Rose is” 9 If You were Queen of Bloaters 9 If Life were never Bitter. M. Collins 10 If you were an Elector. E. Hamilton 10 If you were what your Nose is 10 If I were Big Nat Langham. Punch 11 I am your Dr. Jekyll 11 If it be but a Dream or a Vision 16 If I were Anglo-Saxon. Punch 20 If Love were dhudeen olden 141 The Interpreters 11 Parodies from The Weekly Dispatch 12 Imparadised by my Environment 13 Parody from The Family Herald 13 Home, Sweet Home, à la Swinburne 13 Short Space shall be Hereafter 14 Vaccine after Faustine 14 A Song after Sunset. Judy 15 The Mad, Mad Muse. R. J. Burdette 15 I have made me an End of the Moods 16 Clear the Way! 30 Rail Away! Punch 30 A Word for the Navy 30 A Word for the Poet 30 The Palace of Bric-à-Brac 32 Baby, see the flowers! 32 England, what of the fight? 32 Oh, thy swift, subtle, slanting, services 32 Mr. Swinburne’s prose writings 32, 205 The Session of the Poets. R. Buchanan 33 Paddy Blake on Swinburne 34 An Utter Passion uttered Utterly. Kottabos 81 Lines on a Dead Dog. College Rhymes 204 The Song of Sir Palamede. H. G. Cone “With flow exhaustless of alliterate words.” 205
Martin Farquhar Tupper.
Cuthbert Bede’s Parody 89 The Queen of Oude 89 Beer, that hath entered my head 90 Philosophy of Sausages 90 The Fall of Tupper 90 Going to the Wash 90 Tupper in the Clouds. Andrew Lang 90 The Welcome to the Princess Alexandra 168
Oscar Wilde.
Biographical Memoranda 78 Sala on “Requiescat” 78 A Villanelle, after Oscar Wilde 66 There’s Oscar Wylde, that Gifted Chylde 79 What a Shame and what a Pity 79 Narcissus in Camden. The Century 79 Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman 79 Oscar Interviewed. Punch 80 Sainte Margérie. An Imitation 81 Oh, fainting of Lilies with broken stem 81 Meseem’d that Love. Kottabos 81 Consummate Dish! full many an ancient Crack 81 Impressions, by Oscuro Wildegoose 81 A List of Parodies on O. W. 82 The Public House 82 Five-and-Seventy Maidens, free 82 A Barrel of Beer and a Glass of Gin hot 83 Sing hey! Potatoes and Paint. H. C. Waring 83
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ARNOLD, MATTHEW. The Forsaken Merman 200 The Saturday Review on Arnold’s poems 200 Parody by W. H. Mallock 200 Christmas Thoughts. The World 201 BLOOMFIELD, ROBERT. The Bishop’s wish. Punch 192 The Pot Boy. C. Thirlwall 192 BUTLER, SAMUEL. Parodies and Imitations of Hudibras 259 CALVERLEY, C. S. On the River 84 COLLINS, MORTIMER. The Birds 19 Oh, Summer said to Winter 206 Lady, very fair are you 206 Careless Rhymer, it is True 206 COMIC History of England. In verse 207 CORNWALL, BARRY. The Omnibus 322 COUNTRY Quarter Session. Three or Four Parsons 203 Two or three facts 203 Two or three “dears” 203 CRABBE, REV. G. The Theatre. Rejected Addresses 94 CROSS Readings 287 CUMULATIVE Parodies 270 DARWIN, DR. ERASMUS. Now stood Eliza 198 Parody on above from Diogenes 199 The Loves of the Plants. The Loves of the Triangles 199 The Loves of the Lowlier Plants 200 Natural Selection. Founded on Darwin 200 Miss, I’ m a Pensive Protoplasm. S. Brooks 200 Parody Epitaph on Darwin 200 ÆSTHETIC School, The 69 FITZGERALD, W. T. Britons to Arms! 95 Loyal Effusion. Rejected Addresses 96 GAY’S “Beggar’s Opera. Parodies of songs in 198 GEORGE BARNWELL. Parody, Rejected Addresses 96 “Sam,” by Shirley Brooks 97 HEBER, DR. REGINALD. From Greenland’s icy Mountains 98 From Cashmere’s icy Mountains 98 Address to Women Missionaries 98 From Chatham’s pleasant Mountains 99 HORACES’S Odes. Buttons you booby. Shirley Brooks 197 On the Commencement of Term 197 Thackeray’s Versions 198 November, 1858 198 Railway Horace 198 INGELOW, MISS JEAN. The Apple-Woman’s Song 195 Calverley’s Parodies of above 196 Lovers, and a Reflection 196 The Shrimp Gatherers. Bayard Taylor 196 The Letter L. Daily News 197 I AM COLONEL NORTH of the Horse Marines, Financial News 203 JOHNSON, DR. SAMUEL. Ode to a Girl in the Temple, 1777 188 Parody of Dr. Johnson’s “Prologue” for Drury Lane in 1847 188 LAST Arrival, The. G. W. Cable 270 LEIGH, HENRY S. The Twins 100 In the Strand. Judy 100 LORNE, MARQUIS OF. Guido and Lita Parodied 202 LOST Chord, The. The Lost Chord. G. R. Sims 45 The Lost Shot. Corporal 45 The Legislative Organ 128 LYTTELTON’S Ode, & a Parody by Tobias Smollett 187 MACARONIC Poems. The Death of the Sea Serpent 327 MALLET, David. William and Margaret 91 French and Latin Versions 92 Dr. Johnson’s Ghost 92 Giles Scroggin’s Ghost 93 A Polished Version of the same 93 MOCK Heroic Poems, and Imitations of the Dunciad 179 MORRIS, LEWIS. The Imperial Institute Ode 99 The Ode as it ought to have been. Truth 99 Poet and Poetaster. The Star 100 MORRIS, WILLIAM. The Volsung Tale 26 Behold the Works of W. Morris 76 In the Cushioned Abbey Pew 76 All Sides of the River. Once a Week 77 The Monthly Parodies, after Morris’s “Earthly Paradise.” Gleeson White 77 NUTSHELL Novels 202 OLDEST Classical Burlesque Battle of the Frogs and Mice 328 PATMORE, COVENTRY. The Baby in the House. S. Brooks 194 The Spoons. Puppet Show Album 195 The Person of the House. Heptalogia 229 Poetical Criticism from the Athenæum 229 PYGMALION; or, the Statue Fair. Hornet 326 ROWE, NICHOLAS. Colin’s Complaint 186 Corydon Querens 186 A Parody by George Canning 187 Bow Bells. Henry S. Leigh 187 SCOTT, CLEMENT W. The Women of Mumble’s Head. The Wreck of the steamship “Puffin” 46 A Tale of the 10th Hussars, and a Parody on it 46 The Garden of Sleep 46 SCOTT, SIR WALTER. Paddy Dunbar. (Young Lochinvar) 161 O’SHAUGHNESSY. ARTHUR W. E. Blue Moonshine. F. G. Stokes 83 Frangipanni. Judy 83 On the River 84 SPENSER, EDMUND. List of works written in the Spenserian stanza. J. Bouchier 189 The Alley. Alexander Pope 189 The Holidayer. Funny Folks 189 STERRY J. ASHBY. Georgy 84 The Muse in Manacles 64 SWIFT, JONATHAN. The State Coach 190 The Happy Life of a Country Parson. A. Pope 191 The Logicians Refuted. O. Goldsmith 191 A New Simile. O. Goldsmith 191 TENNYSON, ALFRED. King Arthur, growing very tired 20 The Cigar-Smokers 142 Nicotina. (Oriana) 144 The Weed. (The Brook) 145 “VERNON AVICK.” Song on Sir W. Vernon Harcourt 34 WATTS, DR. How Doth the Nasty Dirty Man 138 ’Twas the Voice of the Doctor 138 WHITE, HENRY KIRKE. It is not that my Lot is low 188 It is not that my “Place” was low 188 WILSON’S Isle of Palms, imitated by James Brown 192
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Words and phrases in italics are surrounded by underscores, like this. Obvious printing errors, such as backwards, upside down, unprinted or partially printed letters, were corrected. Final stops missing at the end of sentences and abbreviations were added. Duplicate words at line endings or page breaks were removed.
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Unprinted diacriticals were added to words in languages other than English. Use of quotation marks is not standardized; minor adjustments were made for clarity of text. Extraneous punctuation was deleted.
The St. James’s Street ballad and its parody are presented in sequence, not side by side.
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