_Chorus_―― Yet Giles’s lads are bold and gay, The pride of Dyott Street; And ever true and merry they, Within their snug retreat. _Jokeby_ went through many editions, although to a modern reader it seems almost destitute of humour or talent. It has been attributed to John Roby, and also to Thomas Tegg, its publisher, whilst the Editor of _Parodies_ copied the following note from a copy of _Jokeby_, which had belonged to the late Shirley Brooks, Editor of _Punch_:――“This was written by the Brothers Smith (of Rejected Addresses). I picked it up at a bookstall near Baker Street. The work is not good for much, but I suppose is now scarce, so this may as well be kept.――_Shirley Brooks_, 17th October, 1873.” But it seems most improbable that this poor imitation should have been the work of either of the Smiths, whose admirable parody of Scott in the _Rejected Addresses_, which was given on page 72, shows what they could do in that way. There was also _Smokeby_ a Parody of the same poem, which appeared in an early number of the _Ephemerides_, a literary serial, published in Edinburgh in 1813. _Rokeby the Second_ is the title of a long, and rather dull, parody which appeared in _The Satirist_, of March. 1813. The events recounted in the poem are supposed to have occurred immediately after the dreadful fight between Tom Cribb and Molineux. The chief aim of this production was to ridicule Scott for the inordinate length of the notes to his poems, for in a preface entitled “An Essay on the Art of Book Making,” the author remarks: “It must be known to everyone, that in modern bookmaking, little depends on the _poetry_ of a _poem_. The notes are the thing on which success depends. In these, difficult as it may seem to come up to the authors of Childe Harold and Rokeby, I am vain enough to think I shall not be found wanting.” Accordingly, the notes are very long (as well as rather broad), and have very little connection indeed with the parody itself. The Satirist, _or Monthly Meteor_ (London), first appeared on October 1, 1807, and was discontinued in 1814. It contained numerous political parodies, and with each number there was a large coloured folding cartoon. The tone of the _Satirist_ was decidedly Tory, and both in its cartoons and its letterpress the Whigs were roundly abused and ridiculed. The parts published December, 1808, and January, 1809, contained two articles entitled “_Second Sight_,” which professed to be a review of a new poem entitled “MACARTHUR, _an Epic Poem_, in six Cantos, by Walter Scott, Esq.” This review not only gave the plot of the supposed work, but also quoted several extracts from it, such as the following:――