Chapter II: Canto VI: ――

“Breathes there the man with soul so dead” 79
A declamation, by Miss Mudge, the Blue Stocking 79
“Breathes there a Scot with soul so dead.”
_O. P. Q. P. Smiff_. The Figaro, 1874 79
Pilosagine. Advertisement parody 80
“Lives there a man with soul so dead” 80
“Breathes there a man with taste so dead.” The
Figaro, 1876 80
“O Caledonia! very stern and wild.” Jon Duan 80
Don Salisbury’s Midnight Vigil. Truth, 1885 81
Parody from the Lays of the Mocking Sprite 82

ALBERT GRAEME.
“It was an English ladye bright” 81
“It was a toper one Saturday night” 81
“It was an Oxford Scholar bright.” The Shotover
Papers, 1874 82
The Lay of the Poor Fiddler, 1814 81
St. Fillan’s Arm. From Lays of the Saintly, by
_Walter Parke_ 83
The Blue Brother. _Walter Parke_ 83
The Lay of the Scottish Fiddle, 1814. _James Kirke
Paulding_ 84
A Lay to the Last Minstrel. _Edward Churton_ 84

MARMION.
O Woman! in our hours of ease 84
Oh! Scotsman! in thine hour of ease 84
A good Wife 85
A Dedication to Women. Finis, 1877 85
The Mansion House Marmion (Lord Mayor Fowler).
Truth, 1883 85

LOCHINVAR 86
Lock-and-Bar. Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 86
“O young William Jones is come out of the West.” 87
“The big-booted Czar had his eye on the East.”
_Shirley Brooks_, 1854 87
“It was Albert of Wales and his troop of Hussars.
Judy, 1871 88
“Choice of Stoke-upon-Trent, lo, Kenealy confest.”
Punch, 1875 88
“O young Stephey Cave is come out of the East.” 89
Young Lochinvar in Blank Verse. Free Press Flashes,
1883 89
“Oh! A Bishop from Surrey is come here to pray.” From
Marmion Travesty, by Peter Pry 90
Epigrams on the Duke of York 91
A Parody concerning Mr. Digby Pigott. 1877. 116

THE LADY OF THE LAKE, 1810 91
The Lady of the Wreck, or Castle Blarneygig.
_George Colman_ 91
“The stag at eve had drunk his fill” 91
“The pig at eve was lank and faint” 91

BOAT SONG――
“Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances” 91
“Hail our Chief! now he’s wet through with whiskey.”
_George Colman_ 92
“Hail to the Chief” (Gladstone). Punch, 1880 92
The Nile Song. Punch, 1863 99
Mountain Dhu; or, the Knight, the Lady, and the Lake.
Burlesque. _Andrew Halliday_, 1866 92
The Lady of the Lake, plaid in a new tartan. Burlesque.
by _R. Reece_ 92
“Raising the “Fiery Cross.” Punch, 1884 93

ROKEBY, 1813 94
Jokeby, by an amateur of Fashion, 1813 (attributed to
John Roby, also to Thomas Tegg, and to the Brothers
Smith) 94
“O, Brignall banks are wild and fair” 94
“Oh, Giles’s lads are brave and gay” 94
Smokeby, in Ephemerides, 1813 94
Rokeby the second, in the Satirist, 1813 94
MacArthur, an Epic Poem, ascribed to Walter Scott.
The Satirist, 1808 95
Valentines. The Satirist, 1810 95
The Ovation of the Empty Chair. The Satirist, 1811 95
Walter Scott, Esq., to his Publishers. Accepted
Addresses, 1813 96
The Poetic Mirror, or the Living Bards of Britain, by
James Hogg, 1816 96
“O, heard ye never of Wat o’ the Cleuch” 97
The Battle of Brentford Green. Warreniana, 1824 97
The Bridal of Caolchairn. _John Hay Allan_, 1822 99
Rejected Odes. Humphrey Hedgehog, 1813 99
A Border Ballad. _Thomas Love Peacock_, 1837 99
“Carle, now the King’s come” 99
“Sawney, now the King’s come” 99
The Battle of Wimbledon. Punch, 1862 99
Kenilworth Burlesque, by R. Reece and H. B. Farnie 99
The Lay of the Lost Minstrel 112

CORONATION LAYS.
The New Monthly Magazine, July, 1831. Containing
parodies of Walter Scott, The Lay of the Lost
Minstrel. T. Campbell, The Show in London. S. T.
Coleridge, “The Sun it shone on spire and wall.” W.
Wordsworth, Sonnets on the Coronation. L. E. Landon,
The Little Absentee. George Crabbe, A Reflection.
Thomas Moore, A Melody. Thomas Hood, A Glance from a
Hood. Robert Southey, P.L., The Laureate’s Lay 112

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Scotch Songs.

The London University
“March, march, dustmen and coal-heavers.” The Spirit
of the Age, 1829 99
“Smoke, smoke! Arcade and College Green” 100

OH WHERE, AND OH WHERE 100
“Oh where, and oh where, is my Harry Brougham gone?”
Punch, 1846 100
“Oh, where, and oh where, has my learned counsel
gone?” Punch, 1848 100
The great kilt Reform. Diogenes, 1854 100
“Oh where, and oh where, has our Wand’ring Willie
gone.” Judy, 1879 101

BONNIE DUNDEE
“To the gents of the pantry ’twas Yellow-plush
spoke,” 1872 101
The Maidens of Bonnie Dundee
“And did they its meeting turn into a joke” 101
“Tis a jolly conception”!――’twas Truscott who spoke.”
(The Temple Bar Obstruction) 101
“In the House of St. Stephen’s Britannia thus spoke” 102
“To the lords of Creation ’twas Chamberlain spoke” 102

THE CAMPBELLS ARE COMING.
The Pop’ an’ Jock Cumming, oh dear, oh dear 102
Hey, Johnny Cumming! are ye waukin’ yet? 103
The Camels are coming, at last, at last! The
Globe, 1884 103
My ’art’s in the ’Ighlands. Punch, 1883 103

WOO’D AND MARRIED AN’ A’ 103
The Tourists’ Matrimonial Guide through Scotland.
_Lord Neaves_ 103

CHARLEY IS MY DARLING――
“Charley was so daring” (Sir Charles Napier) 104
“O, Langtry, wilt thou gang wi’ me” 105

ROBIN ADAIR――
“You’re welcome to Despots, Dumourier,” _Robert
Burns_, 1793 105
“Canning, O rare!” Liverpool election, 1812 105

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Robert Southey, Poet Laureate.

THALABA THE DESTROYER――
“How beautiful is night?” 140
“How troublesome is day?” _T. L. Peacock_ 141
“How beautiful is green?” Charterhouse Poems 141

THE CURSE OF KEHAMA――
“Midnight, and yet no eye.” 141
“Midnight, yet not a nose.” The Rebuilding _James
Smith_. The Rejected Addresses 141
Justice. Lays of Modern Oxford, by Adon, 1874 144

THE CATARACT OF LODORE――
“How does the water come down at Lodore?” 145
Before and after Marriage
How do the gentlemen do before marriage? 145
How do they do after marriage 146
How the Daughters come down at Dunoon. Puck on
Pegasus. _H. C. Pennell_ 146
How does the drunkard go down to the tomb? 147
How do the jolly days pass in the Holidays?
Banter, 1867 147
How the Horses come round at the Corner. Fun 148
May in Lincolnshire. Once a week, 1872 148
How do the ’Varsities come to the Race 149
Ready for the Derby Start. Funny Folks, 1878 149
How does the water come down at Niagara? Funny
Folks, 1878 150
How the Customers come to the Sandown Bazaar.
_W. J. Craig_, 1879 150
Is it how the Home Rulers make spaches, me boys?
_Miss Story_ 151
Here they come broguing, together colloquing.
_C. J. Graves_ 152
Here they come wrangling. _Pembroke_ 152
Just out of one bother into another. _Hoyle_ 152
The World. Parody Competition. Nov., 1879
How the Home Rulers behave at St. Stephens.
_F. B. Doveton_, 1880 153
How do cheap trippers come down to the shore? 153
How do the waters come down on the public? 154
How the Commons rush in through the door? 154
How do the Landlords “come down on” the Act? 155
How the Tourists come down to the shore. Detroit
Free Press, 1885 155
The Falls of Niagara. _E. H. Bickford_ 156

“YOU ARE OLD, FATHER WILLIAM” 156
A Parody from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland 156
“You are cold, Father William.” The Figaro 157
“You air old, Father William. Zoz, 1878 157
“You are old, Father William.” Mayfair, 1878 157
“You are sad, People’s William.” Truth, 1878 157
“You are old, turkey gobbler.” Free Press Flashes,
1882 158
“You look young, little Randolph.” Punch, 1882 158
Parody Competition in Truth, April 5, 1883
“You are old, Father William.” _Repealer_ 159
“You are young, Master Randolph.” _Pickwick_ 159
“You’re a Peer, now, Lord Wolseley.” _Skriker_ 159
“New Honours, Lord Wolseley.” _Old Log_ 159
“You are old, Lady William.” _Third Raven_ 159
“You are old, Kaiser Wilhelm.” T. S. G. 160
“You are plain, Mr. Biggar.” _Paste_ 160
“You are young, Randolph Churchill.” _Yash_ 160
“You are old, Father William.” _Don Juan_ 160
“You have told, Lady Florence.” _Ohr_ 161
“You are old, Noble Senate.” Poetry for the Poor. 1884 161
“You are old, Father William” (Mr. Gladstone.)
Truth, 1884 161
Old William Archer interviewed. The Sporting Times,
1885 162
On the danger of licking postage stamps. Funny
Folks, 1885 162
Sequel to a great Poem. Once a Week, 1886 162
On Irish Policy. A new Alphabet of Irish Policy 162
A Valentine from Miss Hibernia to W. E. G. 163

THE BATTLE OF BLENHEIM――
“It was a summer evening” 163
Notes on the Poem, 163
A Battle with Billingsgate. G. Cruikshank’s Comic
Almanac 164
A Seasonable Gossip. The Puppet Show, 1848 164
The Battle of Jobbing. Diogenes, 1853 164
The Battle of Berlin. Funny Folks, 1878 165
Children at the Pantomime. _F. B. Doveton_.
The World, 1880 165
Another Parody on the same topic. _A. Salter_ 165
The Battle of Brummagem. _William Bates_ 166
A Famous Holiday. Punch, 1880 166
A Glorious Victory (in Cricket). Punch, 1882 167
A Famous Victory (in Egypt). Clapham Free Press, 1884 168
The Battle of Blenheim House. Birmingham Daily
Mail, 1885 168
The old Gladstonite and his Son. Morning Post 169
The Jackanape Jock, Cribblings from the Poets 169

SOUTHEY’S EARLY POLITICAL POEMS 170
BOB SOUTHEY! you’re a poet 171
The Anti-Jacobin Review 171
INSCRIPTION――Henry Marten, the Regicide 171
Inscription――Mrs. Brownrigg, the Prentice-cide 172
THE WIDOW. (Southey’s Sapphics)
“Cold was the night-wind” 172
The Friend of Humanity, and the Knife Grinder 172
The Friend of Humanity, and the Bricklayer’s Labourer.
John Bull, 1827 173
Sapphics of the Cabstand. Punch, 1853 173
Lay of the Proctor. The Shotover Papers, 1874 174
The Friend of Humanity, and Seafaring Person. Punch,
1874 174
The Friend of Humanity, and John Bull. Funny Folks,
1878 174
The Friend of Agriculture, and the needy new Voter.
Punch, 1886 174

THE SOLDIER’S WIFE. Dactylics, 1795 175
The Soldier’s Friend. (Canning’s Contrast.) 175
The Soldier’s Wife. Imitation Dactylics 175

SOUTHEY’S OFFICIAL POEMS 176
The Curse of the Laureate. _James Hogg_ 176

THE VISION OF JUDGMENT 176
The Vision of Judgment. _Lord Byron_ 176
A Slap at Slop. _William Hone_ 177
“The New Times” and “The Constitutional Association” 177
A New Vision. _William Hone_ 177
Carmen Triumphale. _W. F. Deacon_. Warreniana 179
“The Satirist or Monthly Meteor,” 1813 180
Epitaph for Robert Southey, Esq., Poet Laureate,
The Spirit of the Public Journals, 1824 180

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Algernon Charles Swinburne.

THE COMMONWEAL, July 1, 1886 187
The Old Cause, A Counterblast. The Daily News,
July 2, 1886 187
The Common Squeal. Punch, 1886 189
The Weekly Dispatch. Parodies by _A. Whalley_, and
_F. B. Doveton_ 189

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