PARODIES OF THE WORKS OF ENGLISH AND AMERICAN AUTHORS, COLLECTED AND ANNOTATED BY WALTER HAMILTON, _Fellow of the Royal Geographical, and Royal Historical Societies; Author of “A History of National Patriotic Songs,” “A Memoir of George Cruikshank,” “The Poets Laureate of England,” “The Æsthetic Movement in England,” etc._ VOLUME VI. CONTAINING PARODIES OF A. C. Swinburne. G. R. Sims. Robert Browning. F. Locker-Lampson. Austin Dobson. Dante G. Rossetti. OSCAR WILDE. J. DRYDEN. A. POPE. MARTIN F. TUPPER. BALLADES, RONDEAUS, VILLANELLES, TRIOLETS. NURSERY RHYMES AND CHILDREN’S SONGS. PARODIES AND POEMS IN PRAISE OF TOBACCO. PROSE PARODIES. SLANG, FLASH, AND CANT SONGS. RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL PARODIES. _Bibliography of Parody, and Dramatic Burlesques_ Some things are very good, pick out the best, Good wits compiled them, and I wrote the rest; If thou dost buy it, it will quit the cost, Read it, and all thy labour is not lost. JOHN TAYLOR, _the Water Poet_. REEVES & TURNER, 196, STRAND, LONDON, W.C. ―― 1889. PREFACE. [Illustration: I]t is now a little more than six years since this publication was commenced, and the completion of the Sixth Volume enables me to say that nearly every Parody of literary merit, or importance, has been mentioned in its pages, whilst some _thousands_ of the best have been given in full. To form such a collection required not only an intimate knowledge of English Poetical Literature, but involved the reference to many very rare and scarce books, English, American, and Colonial. I beg to offer my sincere thanks to the Authors who kindly permitted their copyright poems to be inserted in this volume, particularly to F. Locker-Lampson, Esq., and G. R. Sims, Esq., as well as to the following gentlemen, for copies of Parodies and other information they have afforded――Messrs. Cuthbert Bede, G. H. Brierley, of Cardiff; F. W. Crawford, T. F. Dillon Croker, Frank Howell, J. H. Ingram, Walter Parke, F. B. Perkins, of San Francisco; C. H. Stephenson, C. H. Waring, and Gleeson White. In nearly every case the permission of the authors has been obtained for the re-publication of their Parodies; in the few instances where this was not done, it was owing to the impossibility of finding the author’s address. During the progress of the work, some further Parodies appeared of Authors already dealt with, it is proposed to include these in a supplementary volume, which will be published at some future date.