glittering ring;

Of Tiresias, the blind old man, the fam'd Aonian seer;

Of Hecate, and Cthonian Dis, whom all mankind revere ;

And of Daphnis lying down to die beneath the leafy vine

Theocritus! Theocritus! what pleasant dreams were thine!

Here and there
Like a dog in a fair,
Over comfits and cates,
And dishes and plates,
Cowl and cope, and rochet and pall,
Mitre and crosier! he hopp'd upon all !
With a saucy air,

He perch'd on the chair

Where, in state, the great Lord Cardinal sat, In the great Lord Cardinal's great red hat; And he peer'd in the face

Of his Lordship's Grace,

With a satisfied look, as if he would say, "We two are the greatest folks here to day!"

And the priests, with awe,

As such freaks they saw,

Said, "The Devil must be in that little Jackdaw!"

Then the Guns' alarums, and the King of Arums,

All in his Garters and his Clarence shoes, Opening the massy doors to the bould Am

bassydors,

The Prince of Potboys, and great haythen Jews:

'T would have made you crazy to see Esterhazy

All jool's from his jasey to his di'mond boots,

With Alderman Harmer, and that swate charmer

The famale heiress, Miss Anja-ly Coutts.

And Wellington, welking with his swoord drawn, talking

To Hill and Hardinge, haroes of great fame :

And Sir De Lacy, and the Duke Dalmasey (They call'd him Sowlt afore he changed his name), Themselves presading Lord Melbourne, lading

The Queen, the darling, to her royal chair, And that fine ould fellow, the Duke of PellMello,

The Queen of Portingal's Chargy-de-fair.

Then the noble Prussians, likewise the Russians,

In fine laced jackets with their goulden cuffs,

And the Bavarians, and the proud Hungarians,

And Everythingarians all in furs and

muffs.

Then Misther Spaker, with Misther Pays the Quaker,

All in the gallery you might persave; But Lord Brougham was missing, and gone a-fishing,

Ounly crass Lord Essex would not give him lave.

There was Baron Alten himself exalting, And Prince Von Schwartzenburg, and

many more;

Och! I'd be bother'd and entirely smother'd

To tell the half of 'em was to the fore; With the swate Peeresses, in their crowns and dresses,

And Aldermanesses, and the Boord of
Works;