The Choice Humorous Works, Ludicrous Adventures, Bons Mots, Puns, and Hoaxes of Theodore HookHook, Theodore Edward
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The Choice Humorous Works, Ludicrous Adventures, Bons Mots, Puns, and Hoaxes of Theodore Hook
Hook, Theodore Edward
English wit and humor
Lawyer Brougham is next in rank;
Prates like Babel--prates like Babel;
He has never eat or drank
At Bribery's table--Bribery's table;
What, then, now can stop his mouth,
In this hot age--in this hot age?
'Tis, if he would tell the truth,
Michael's potage--Michael's potage!
Hobhouse, who pretends to _νους_,
Cur of Burdett--cur of Burdett;
Fired his pop-gun, but the House
Never heard it--never heard it;
He foresaw, from Canning's lash,
Stripes too cutting--stripes too cutting,
So he sneak'd away to hash
Michael's mutton--Michael's mutton.
Where was, on that famous night,
Hume the surgeon?--Hume the surgeon?
Who pretends to set us right
By constant purging--constant purging;
No division yet expecting--
Fond of work, he--fond of work, he--
At the moment was dissecting
Michael's turkey--Michael's turkey!
Fergusson his place may choose
In the bevy--in the bevy;
He's the real Taylor's goose,
Hot and heavy--hot and heavy--
He'd out-do, with sword and flame,
Senna-cherib--Senna-cherib.
What, that evening, made him tame?
Michael's spare-rib--Michael's spare-rib.
Thus the social round they form,
In Privy-Gardens--Privy-Gardens;
And they care about Reform
Not three farthings--not three farthings.
To yawn and vote let others stay,
Who can bear it--who can bear it;
They, much wiser, drink away
Michael's claret--Michael's claret.
While ye thus, in claret, Sirs,
Lose your reason--lose your reason;
England will recover hers,
Lost last season--lost last season!
Faction's mobs--Sedition's hordes
Must grow thinner--must grow thinner,
When plain Common Sense records
Michael's dinner--Michael's dinner!
[Music: MRS. MUGGINS'S VISIT TO THE QUEEN.
TUNE--"_Have you been to Abingdon?_"
Have you been to Bran-den-burgh? Heigh, Ma'am, Ho, Ma'am?
You've been to Bran-den-burgh, Ho? Oh, yes, I have been, Ma'am, to
vi-sit the Queen, Ma'am, with the rest of the gal-lan-ty
show, show; with the rest of the gal-lan-ty show.]
And who were your company--Heigh, Ma'am, ho, Ma'am?
Who were your company, ho?
--We happen'd to drop in,
With Gem'men from Wapping,
And Ladies from Blowbladder-Row----Row,
And Ladies from Blowbladder-Row.
What saw you at Brandenburgh,--Heigh, Ma'am, ho, Ma'am?
What saw you at Brandenburgh, ho?
--We saw a great dame,
With a face red as flame,
And a character spotless as snow----snow,
And a character spotless as snow.
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