Shakespeare and Bacon are vexation Donelly is as bad, His Cryptogram it puzzles me, His Cypher drives me mad. _Scott Surtees._ 1888. ――――:o:―――― Please to remember The Fifth of November, Gunpowder, treason and plot; I know no reason Why gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot. (About 1651.) MITCHELSTOWN. Please to remember The ninth of September, Mitchelstown’s murderous shot. I see no reason Why Government treason Should ever be forgot. Balfour blacksheep, Have you any gruel? Yes sir, yes sir, Three plates full. One for the Parson, One for the Dame, And one for the man who joins The Plan of Campaign. Ding, dong, dell, Dillon’s in a cell, Who put him in? Servants of the Queen. Who’ll pull him out? G. O. M. no doubt. NEWGATE. _Truth._ June 14, 1888. ―――― Remember, remember, the recreant member Who with Tories has cast in his lot, I see no reason why Chamberlain’s treason Should ever be forgot. Clever, smart, and spry, With his eye-glass in his eye, Send him to the House of Lords And there let him lie! A Tory place the traitor to pay; True Radicals scorn to lash him; Old Ireland’s curse on his soul to lay, And the next election to smash him. JOHN BULL. _The Weekly Dispatch._ November, 1888. ―――― A LAY FOR THE FIFTH OF NOVEMBER. Remember, remember, the fifth of November, And gunpowder treason plot; I know no reason why winking at treason Should ever be forgot. So, holloa, boys, holloa, and bring out the guys That every true Englishman needs must despise. Instead of Old Guy, who in years long gone by Used gunpowder kegs for a tool, We’ve a certain old man who does all he can To break up the House with Home Rule. Bring the effigy out, and take it about; On to the Bonfire with laughter and shout, And all the good people who see it will cry, “Holloa! boys, holloa! for Gladstone the Guy.”