'Look at the Clock!' quoth Winifred Pryce, As she open'd the door to her husband's knock, Then paus'd to give him a piece of advice, 'You nasty Warmint, look at the Clock!...
Oh, my head! my head! my head! Lack! for my poor unfortunate head! Mister de Ville Has been to feel, And what do you think he said? He felt it up, and he felt it down,...
Och! the Coronation! what celebration For emulation can with it compare? When to Westminster the Royal Spinster, And the Duke of Leinster, all in order did repair! 'Twas there you'd see the New Polishemen...
It was a litter, a litter of five, Four are drown'd and one left alive, He was thought worthy alone to survive; And the Bagman resolved upon bringing him up,...
Francois Xavier Auguste was a gay Mousquetaire, The Pride of the Camp, the delight of the Fair: He'd a mien so distingu and so dbonnaire, And shrugg'd with a grace so recherch and rare,...
I believe there are few But have heard of a Jew, Named Shylock, of Venice, as arrant a 'screw' In money transactions as ever you knew; An exorbitant miser, who never yet lent...
Oh! the balloon, the great balloon! It left Vauxhall one Monday at noon, And every one said we should hear of it soon With news from Aleppo or Scanderoon. But very soon after, folks changed their tune:...