_He quits that moonlight yard of skulls, And still he feels right glad, and smiles With moral joy at that old tomb; Peter's cheek recalls its bloom, And as he creepeth by the tiles, He mutters ever--"W.W. Never more will trouble you, trouble you_." _Peter Bell the Second_, as it is convenient, though not strictly accurate, to call Reynold's "antenatal Peter," was more popular than the original. By May a third edition had been called for, and this contained fresh stanzas and additional notes. Another parody, which ridiculed the affection for donkeys displayed both by Wordsworth and Coleridge, was called _The Dead Asses: A Lyrical Ballad_; and an elaborate production, the author of which I have not been able to discover, was published later on in the year, _Benjamin the Waggoner_ (Baldwin, Craddock and Joy, 1819), which, although the title suggests _The Waggoner_ of Wordsworth, is entirely taken up with making fun of _Peter Bell_. This parody--and it is certainly neither pointless nor unskilful--chiefly deals with the poet's fantastic prologue. Then, no less a person than Shelley, writing to Leigh Hunt from Florence in November of the same year, enclosed a _Peter Bell the Third_ which he desired should be printed, yet in such a form as to conceal the name of the author. Perhaps Hunt thought it indiscreet to publish this not very amusing skit, and it did not see the light till long after Shelley's death. Finally, as though the very spirit of parody danced in the company of this strange poem, Wordsworth himself chronicled its ill-fate in a sonnet imitated from Milton's defence of "Tetrachordon," singing how, on the appearance of _Peter Bell_, _a harpy brood On Bard and Hero clamourously fell_.