"By lawyers' consultations, and Chancery delay--public meetings, and public dinners,--loyal toasts, and `three times three'--lady patronesses, and lords directors,--and by the decoy subscription of the chair-- "Descend! "By the _nolo episcopari_ of the Bishops-- "Come! "By newspaper puffs, and newspaper reports,--by patent medicines, and portable dressing-cases, wine-merchant's bottles, ne-plus-ultra corkscrews,--H---t's corn, C---tt's maize, W---'s blacking, and W---'s champagne-- "Appear! "By thy professional followers, the fashionable tailors, hairdressers, boot-makers, milliners, jewellers--all the auctioneers, and all the bazaars-- "Come to my aid! "By thy interested worshippers by shuffling W---e, by Z--- M---y, Lawyer S---ns, W---m S---th, T---l B---n, Sir G---r McG---r, and Dom M---l-- "Appear! "By thy talented votaries-- "Descend! "Still heedless!--Then by the living B---m, and the shade of C---g, come! "Rebellious and wayward spirit! I tell thee, come thou must, whether thou art at a council to wage a war in which thousands shall perish, or upon the padding of a coat, by which, unpaid for, but one ninth part of a man shall suffer--whether thou art forging the powerful artillery of woman against unarmed man, and directing the fire from her eye, which, like that of the Egyptian queen, shall lose an empire--or art just as busy in the adjustment of the bustle [see note 1] of a lady's-maid-- appear thou must. There is one potent spell, one powerful name, which shall force thee trembling to my presence.--Now-- "By all that is _contemptible_-- "By all his patriotism, his affection for the army and the navy--by his flow of eloquence, and his strength of argument--by the correctness of his statements, and the precision of his arithmetic--by his sum _tottle_, and by Joey H---e, himself-- "Appear!" [_Humbug descends, amidst a discharge of Promethean and copperplate thunder_.] "'Tis well! Now perch upon the tip, and guide my pen, and contrive that the wickedness and hypocrisy of the individual may be forgotten in the absurdity of the scene." ------------------------------------------------------------------------