The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 19, No. 551, June 9, 1832

The perfection of the monkey embellishments would delight the admirers of Mr. Landseer's famed Monkeyana .
Monkey Island has had several owners since the Duke of Marlborough disposed of it: the lease of the place at £25 l. a-year was, in 1787, purchased for 240 guineas, by Henry Townley Ward, Esq. who bequeathed it to P.C. Bruce, Esq., of Taplow. Its vicinity to Cliefden's hanging woods and picturesque home scenery must render it a delightful retreat.
Its establishment is stated to have cost the Duke of Marlborough ten thousand guineas.

There once was a King, as they say,
Though history says naught about it,
Who slept sound by night and by day,
And for glory—who just did without it;
A night cap his diadem was,
Which his maid used to air at the fire,
And then put it on him, (that's poz:)