THE DEMOLISHED FARCE; OR, 'WHO IS THE AUTHOR?'

By a Newspaper Critic.

[Lines suggested by the failure of Mr. Thomas Haines Bayly's farce 'Decorum.']

Oh no! we'll never mention him;

We won't, upon our word!

'Decorum' now forbids to name

An unsuccessful bard.

From Drury Lane we'll toddle to

Our 'office' with regret,

And if they ask us, 'Who's been dished?'

We'll say that 'we forget!'

We'll bid him now forsake 'the Scene,'

And try his ancient strain;

He'd better 'be a butterfly'

Than write a farce again.

'Tis true that he can troll a song,

Or tender Canzonette;

But if you ask us, 'What beside?'

Why, really, 'we forget.'

And, oh, there are so many now,

Who write good come-dy,—

There's Mister Planché, Mister Peake,

And Poole, who wrote Paul Pry,

Moncrieff and Mister Buckstone join

To make a funny set,

With some half-dozen jokers more,

Whose names we quite forget.

They tell us he has got, behind,

A bran-new five-act play;

They say that it is devilish droll,

But heed not what they say;

Perchance, indeed, 'twill struggle on

A night or two, but yet

If 'tis no better than his farce,

The pair you'll soon forget!