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Then said his little Soul, Peeping from her little hole,

« I protest, little Man, you are stout, stout, stout, But, if 't is not uncivil,

Pray tell me, what the devil

Must our little, little speech be about, bout, bout, Must our little little speech be about?»

The little Man look'd big,

With the assistance of his wig,

And he call'd his little Soul to order, order, order,

Till she fear'd he 'd make her jog in

To jail, like Thomas Croggan,

And though oft, of an evening, perhaps he might prove,

Like our brave Spanish Allies, « unable to move;»
Yet there is one thing in war, of advantage unbounded,
Which is, that he could not with ease be surrounded!
In my next, I shall sing of their arms and equipment:
At present no more but-good luck to the shipment!

LORD WELLINGTON AND THE MINISTERS.

(As she was n't duke or earl) to reward her, ward her, So gentle in peace Alcibiades smiled,

ward her,

As she was n't duke or earl, to reward her.

The little Man then spoke,

<«< Little Soul, it is no joke,

For, as sure as JACKY FULLER loves a sup, sup, sup, I will tell the Prince and People

What I think of Church and Steeple,

And my little patent plan to prop them up, up, up, And my little patent plan to prop them up.»>

Away then, cheek by jowl,

Little Man and little soul

1813.

While in battle he shone forth so terribly grand, That the emblem they graved on his seal was a child, With a thunderbolt placed in its innocent hand.

Oh, WELLINGTON ! long as such Ministers wield
Your magnificent arm, the same emblem will do ;
For, while they 're in the Council and you in the Field,
We 've the babies in them and the thunder in you!

To the Editor of the Morning Chronicle. SIR,-In order to explain the following fragment, it

Went, and spoke their little speech to a tittle, tittle, is necessary to refer your readers to a late florid de

tittle,

And the world all declare

That this priggish little pair

Never yet in all their lives look'd so little, little, little, Never yet in all their lives look'd so little.

scription of the Pavilion at Brighton, in the apartments of which, we are told, «FUM, The Chinese Bird of Royalty,» is a principal ornament.

I am, Sir, yours, etc.

MUM.

REINFORCEMENTS FOR LORD WELLINGTON.

suosque tibi commendat Troja penates, Hos cape fatorum comites.-VIRGIL.

1813.

As recruits in these times are not easily got,
And the Marshal must have them-pray, why should we

not,

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We may thus make them useful to England at last.
CASTLEREAGH in our sieges might save some disgraces,
Being used to the taking and keeping of places;
And Volunteer CANNING, still ready for joining,
Might show off his talent for sly undermining.
Could the Household but spare us its glory and pride,
Old HEADFORT at horn-works again might be tried,
And the CHIEF JUSTICE make a bold charge at his side!
While VANSITTART could victual the troops upon tick,
And the DOCTOR look after the baggage and sick.

Nay, I do not see why the great REGENT himself
Should, in times such as these, stay at home on the
shelf:-

Though through narrow defiles he 's not fitted to pass, Yet who could resist if he bore down en masse?

FUM AND HUM,

The two Birds of Royalty.

ONE day the Chinese Bird of Royalty, Fum,
Thus accosted our own Bird of Royalty, Hum,

In that Palace or China-shop (Brighton-which is it!)
Where FUM had just come to pay Hum a short visit.—
Near akin are these Birds, though they differ in nation
(The breed of the HUMS is as old as creation),
Both full-craw'd Legitimates-both birds of prey,
Both cackling and ravenous creatures, half way
'T wixt the goose and the vulture, like Lord CASTLEREAGH;
While FUM deals in Mandarins, Bonzes, Bohea-
Peers, Bishops, and Punch, HUM, are sacred to thee!
So congenial their tastes, that, when FUM first did
light on

The floor of that grand China-warehouse at Brighton,
The lanterns, and dragons, and things round the dome
Were so like what he left, « Gad,» says FUM, «I'm at
home,»-

And when turning, he saw Bishop L-
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Quoth the Bird, «yes-I know him-a Bonze, by his phiz

And that jolly old idol he kneels to so low

Can be none but our round-about godhead, fat Fo!»
It chanced, at this moment, the Episcopal Prig
Was imploring the PRINCE to dispense with his wig

1 The character given to the Spanish soldier, in Sir John Murray's memorable dispatch.

In consequence of an old promise, that he should be allowed to wear his own hair, whenever he might be elevated to a bishoprick by his Royal Highness.

Which the Bird, overhearing, flew high o'er his head,
And some TOBIT-like marks of his patronage shed,
Which so dimm'd the poor Dandy's idolatrous eye,
That while FUM cried « Oh Fo!» all the Court cried
« Oh fie!»>

Which have spoil'd you, till hardly a drop, my old

Of

porpoise,

pure English claret is left in your corpus;
And (as JIM says) the only one trick, good or bad,
Of the fancy you 're up to, is fibbing, my lad!
Hence it comes,-BOXIANA, disgrace to thy page!
Having floor'd, by good luck, the first swell of the age,

But a truce to digression.-These birds of a feather Thus talk'd, t' other night, on State matters together-Having conquer'd the prime one, that mill'd us all (The PRINCE just in bed, or about to depart for 't,

His legs full of gout, and his arms full of HERTFORD);

round,

You kick'd him, old BEN, as he gasp'd on the ground!

«I say, HUM,» says FUM-FUM, of course spoke Chi-Ay-just at the time to show spunk, if you'd got any

But, bless

nese,
you,

that's nothing-at Brighton one sees Foreign lingoes and bishops translated with ease

«I say HUM,» how fares it with Royalty now?

Is it up? is it prime? is it spooney--or how?» (The Bird had just taken a flash man's degree

Kick'd him, and jaw'd him, and lagg'd1 him to Botany!
Oh, shade of the Cheesemonger! you who, alas!
Doubled up, by the dozen, those Mounseers in brass,
On that great day of milling, when blood lay in lakes,
When Kings held the bottle and Europe the stakes,
Look down upon BEN-see him dunghill all o'er,

Under B➖➖➖➖e, Y▬▬▬▬th, and young Master Insult the fallen foe that can harm him no more.

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«As for us in Pekin»---here a devil of a din

From the bed-chamber came, where that long Mandarin,
CASTLEREAGH (whom FUM calls the Confucius of prose),
Was rehearsing a speech upon Europe's repose,
To the deep double-bass of the fat idol's nose!

(Nota bene.-His Lordship and LIVERPOOL Come,
In collateral lines, from the old Mother HUM,-
CASTLEREAGH A HUM-bug-LIVERPOOL a HUM-drum.)—
The speech being finish'd, out rush'd CASTLEREAGH,
Saddled FUM in a hurry, and whip, spur away!
Through the regions of air, like a Snip on his hobby;
Ne'er paused till he lighted in St Stephen's lobby.

Out, cowardly spooney!-again and again,
By the fist of my father, I blush for thee, BEN.
To show the white feather is many men's doom,
But, what of one feather?-BEN shows a whole Plume.

TO LADY HOLLAND,

On Napoleon's Legacy of a Snuff-Box.
GIFT of the Hero, on his dying day,

To her, whose pity watch'd, for ever nigh;
Oh! could he see the proud, the happy ray,
This relic lights up in her generous eye,
Sighing, he'd find how easy 't is to pay

A friendship all his kingdoms could not buy.

EPISTLE FROM TOM CRIB TO BIG BEN,
Concerning some foul play in a late Transaction.'

Abi, mio Ben!-METASTASIO.3

WHAT! Ben, my old hero, is this your renown!
Is this the new go?-kick a man when he's down!
When the foe has knock'd under, to tread on him then-
By the fist of my father, I blush for thee, BEN!
« Foul! foul;» all the lads of the fancy exclaim-
CHARLEY SHOCK is electrified-BELCHER Spits flame-
And MOLYNEUX-ay, even BLACKEY, cries « Shame!»
Time was, when JOHN BULL little difference spied
'T wixt the foe at his feet and the friend at his side;
When he found (such his humour in fighting and eating)
His foe, like his beef-steak, the sweeter for beating-
But this comes, Master BEN, of your cursed foreign no-
tions,

Your trinkets, wigs, thingumbobs, gold lace, and lo-
tions;
Your noyaus, curaçoas, and the devil knows what-
(One swig of Blue Ruin 3 is worth the whole lot!)
Your great and small crosses-(my eyes, what a brood!
A cross-buttock from me would do some of them good!)

Written soon after Bonaparte's transportation to St Helena. 2 Tom, I suppose, was assisted to this motto by Mr Jackson, who, it is well known, keeps the most learned company going. 3 Gin.

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No want has he of sword or dagger,
Cock'd hat or ringlets of GERAMB;

Though Peers may laugh, and Papists swagger,
He does not care one single d-mn!

a Whether 'midst Irish chairmen going,

Or, through St Giles's alleys dim, 'Mid drunken Sheelabs, blasting, blowing, No matter 't is all one to him.

3 For instance I, one evening late,

Upon a gay vacation sally,

Singing the praise of Church and State,

Got (God knows how) to Cranbourne Alley. When lo! an Irish Papist darted

Across my path, gaunt, grim, and big-
I did but frown, and off he started,

Scared at me even without my wig!
4 Yet a more fierce and raw-boned dog
Goes not to mass in Dublin City,
Nor shakes his brogue o'er Allen's Bog,
Nor spouts in Catholic Committee!

5 Oh! place me 'midst O'ROURKES, O'TOOLES,
The ragged royal blood of TARA;
Or place me where DICK MARTIN rules
The houseless wilds of CONNEMARA;—

6 Of Church and State I'll warble still,

Though even DICK MARTIN's self should grumble; Sweet Church and State, like JACK and JILL,

7 So lovingly upon a hill

Ah! ne'er like JACK and JILL to tumble!

1 Non eget Mauri jaculis neque arcu,

Nec venenatis gravida sagittis

Fusce, pharetra.

Sive per Syrteis iter æstuosas,

Sive facturus per inhospitalem

Caucasum, vel quæ loca fabulosus

Lambit Hydaspes.

HORACE, ODE 1, LIB. 111.

A FRAGMENT.

Odi profanum vulgus et arceo.
Favete linguis: carmina non prius
Audita, Musarum sacerdos,
Virginibus, puerisque canto.
Regum tremendorum in proprios greges,
Reges in ipsos imperium est Jovis.

1815.

I HATE thee, oh Mob! as my lady hates delf,
To Sir Francis I'll give up thy claps and thy hisses,
Leave old Magna Charta to shift for itself,

And, like GODWIN, write books for young masters and

misses.

Oh! it is not high rank that can make the heart merry, Even monarchs themselves are not free from mishap; Though the Lords of Westphalia must quake before Jerry,

Poor Jerry himself has to quake before Nap.

HORACE, ODE xxxvII, LIB. 1.

A FRAGMENT.

Translated by a Treasury Clerk, while waiting Dinner for the Right Hon. George Rose.

Persicos odi, puer, apparatus :

Displicent nexæ philyra coronæ,

Mitte sectari Ross quo locorum

Sera moretur.

The noble translator had, at first, laid the scene of these imagined Boy, tell the Cook that I hate all nick-nackeries, dangers of his man of conscience among the papists of Spain, and | Fricasces, vol-au-vents, puffs, and gim-crackeries, had translated the words quæ loca fabulosus lambit Hydaspes.

thus -- The fabling Spaniard licks the French in bat, recollecting | Six by the llorse-Guards !-old Georgy is late that it is our interest just now to be respectful to Spanish catholics | fat come-lay the table-cloth-zounds ! do not wait, (though there is certainly no earthly reason for our being even com- Nor stop to inquire, while the dinner is staying, monly civil to Irish ones), be altered the passage as it stands at At which of his places Old ROSE is delaying!'

present.

3 Namque me sylva lupus in Sabina,
Dum meam canto Lalagen, et ultra
Terminum curis vagor expeditus,
Fugit inermem.

I cannot help calling the reader's attention to the peculiar ingenuity with which these lines are paraphrase. Not to mention the happy conversion of the wolf into a papist (seeing that Romulus was suckled by a wolf, that Rome was founded by Romulus, and that the Pope has always reigned at Rome), there is something particularly neat in supposing witra terminums to mean vacation time, and then the modest co sciousness with which the noble and learned translator bas avoided touching upon the words curis expeditus, (or, as it has been otherwise read, causis expeditus,) and the felicitous idea of his being inermis when without his wig, are altogether the most delectable specimens of paraphrase in our lan

guage.

4 Quale portentum neque militaris Daunia in latis alit esculetis, Nec Juba tellus generat, leonum

Arida nutrix.

Pone me pigris ubi nulla campis

Arbor æstiva recreatur aura:

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The literal closeness of the version bere cannot but be admired. The translator has added a long, erudite, and flowery note upon Roses, of which I can merely give a specimen at present. In the first place, be ransacks the Rosarium Politicum of the Persian poet Sadi, with the hope of finding some Political Roses, to match the gentleman in the text-but in vain: he then tells us, that Cicero accused Verres of reposing upon a cushion Melitensi rosa fartum, which, from the odd mixture of words, he supposes to be a kind of Irish Bed of Roses, like Lord Castlereagh's. The learned clerk next favours us with some remarks upon a well-known punning epitaph on fair Rosamond, and expresses a most loyal bope that, if Rosa manda mean Rose with cleau hands, it may be found applicable to the Right Honourable Rose in question. He then dwells at some length upon the = Rosa aurea which, though descriptive, in one sense, of the old Treasury Statesman, yet, as being consecrated and worn by the Pope, must, of course, not be brought into the same atmosphere with him. Lastly, in reference to the words old Rose, be winds up with the pathetic lamentation of the poet, consenuisse Rosas. The whole note, indeed, shows a knowledge of Roses that is

? There cannot be imagined a more happy illustration of the in- quite edifying.

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Dialogue between a Dowager and her Maid on the
Night of Lord Yarmouth's Fête.

I WANT the Court-Guide,» said my Lady, « to look
If the house, Seymour Place, be at 30 or 20»-

« We 've lost the Court-Guide, Ma'am, but here's the Red Book,

Where you'll find, I dare say, Seymour PLACES in plenty!»

The words addressed by Lord Herbert of Cherbury, to the beautiful nun at Murano. See his Life.

This is a bon mot, attributed, I know not how truly, to the PAINCESS OF WALES. I have merely versified it.

EPIGRAM.

FROM THE FRENCH.

<< I NEVER give a kiss,» says Prue,

«To naughty man, for I abbor it.» She will not give a kiss 't is true

She'll take one, though, and thank you for it.

ON A SQUINTING POETESS.

To no one Muse does she her glance confine, But has an eye, at once, to all the Nine!

THE TORCH OF LIBERTY.

I SAW it all in Fancy's glass-
Herself the fair, the wild magician,
That bid this splendid day-dream pass,
And named each gliding apparition.
"T was like a torch-race-such as they
Of Greece perform'd, in ages gone,
When the fleet youths, in long array,

Pass'd the bright torch triumphant on.

I saw the expectant nations stand
To catch the coming flame in turn-
I saw,
from ready hand to hand,
The clear but struggling glory burn.

And, oh! their joy, as it came near,
'T was in itself a joy to see-
While Fancy whisper'd in my ear,

«That torch they pass is Liberty!»

And each, as she received the flame,
Lighted her altar with its ray,
Then, smiling to the next who came,
Speeded it on its sparkling way.

From ALBION first, whose ancient shrine
Was furnish'd with the fire already,
COLUMBIA caught the spark divine,

And lit a flame like ALBION's-steady.

The splendid gift then GALLIA took,

And, like a wild Bacchante, raising The brand aloft, its sparkles shook,

As she would set the world a-blazing.

And, when she fired her altar, high
It flash'd into the redd'ning air
So fierce, that ALBION, who stood nigh,
Shrunk, almost blinded by the glare!

Next, SPAIN so new was light to her-
Leap'd at the torch; but, ere the spark
She flung upon her shrine could stir,

'T was quench'd, and all again was dark.

Yet no-not quench'd-a treasure worth
So much to mortals rarely dies-
Again her living light look'd forth,
And shone, a beacon, in all eyes.

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