INDEX.

The authors of the original poems are arranged in alphabetical order; the titles of the original poems are printed in small capitals, followed by the Parodies, the authors of which are named wherever possible.

Albert Grant, M.P. and Leicester Square[2]
Home, Sweet Home[3]
Trial by Jury, in 1884, a Burlesque Law Report, from the Pall Mall Gazette[20]
The Art of Parody, an Article reprinted from The Saturday Review of February 14th, 1885[103]
Tracy Turnerelli and the Golden Wreath[237] [238]
NATIONAL ANTHEM OF THE UNITED STATES.—
Orpheus C. Kerr’s report of the Prize Competitionfor a National Hymn, with copies of the rejectedcompositions ascribed to Longfellow, Everett,Whittier, Wendell Holmes, Emerson, CullenBryant, Morris, Willis, Aldwick, and Stoddart[22]
——:o:——
Matthew Arnold.
Sonnet to George Cruikshank[236]
World—Prize Parody, by V. Amcotts[237]
Do.   do.  by Goymour Cuthbert[237]
Do.   Competition Parody by Nocturne[237]
Do.   do.   do.,  by Caraway[237]
The subject selected was “Mr. Charles Warner in Drink,” August 20, 1879.
The Forsaken Merman[237]
The World—Prize Parody, by Mrs. Winsloe[238]
Do.   do.   by Miss M. C. Kilburn[238]
The subject selected was “Mr. Tracy Turnerelli in the Provinces, with the Golden Wreath.” September 24, 1879.
The Wreath, from The World, July, 1879[238]
——:o:——
John Dryden’s Epigram on Milton.
“Three Poets, in Three Distant Ages Born”[233]
Epigram on Orator Henley, Rock, and Dr. John Hill[233]
  ”  on Chatterton, Ireland, Lauder, and Macpherson[233]
  ”  by D. O’Connell on Three Colonels[233]
  ”  on Three Pens, advertisement[234]
  ”  on Hemans, Hallam, and Hogg[234]
Parody Competition in Truth, March 27, 1884—
Epigrams on Brandy and Soda[234]
  ”  on Grog and Baccy[234]
  ”  on Generals Wolseley, Roberts, and Graham[234]
  ”  on Truth[234]
  ”  on Beau Nash, Beau D’Orsay, and Beau Brummel[234]
  ”  on Three Champion Batsmen[234]
  ”  on the Midge, the Gnat, and the Mosquito[234]
  ”  on the Rose, Shamrock, and Thistle[234]
  ”  on Tyndall, Huxley, and Darwin[234]
  ”  on a Beau, a Dandy, and a Masher[234]
  ”  on Gladstone, Sir S. Northcote, and Randolph Churchill[234]
  ”  on the Members for Eye, Bridport, and Woodstock[235]
  ”  on Lord Salisbury, Sir S. Northcote, and Lord R. Churchill (several)[235]
  ”  on Gladstone, John Bright, and J. Chamberlain[235]
  ”  on Gambetta, Prince Bismarck, and Gladstone[235]
  ”  on the Irish Party (several)[235]
  ”  on Lord Beaconsfield, Mr. Gladstone, and Lord R. Churchill[235]
  ”  on Whigs, Parnellites, and Tories[233]
  ”  on Sir Wilfrid Lawson[235]
  ”  on Pitt, Fox, and Gladstone[236]
  ”  on Irving, Bancroft, and Toole[236]
  ”  on Toole, Sullivan, and Irving[236]
  ”  on Irving, Augustus Harris, and Wilson Barrett[236]
  ”  on Mrs. Langtry, Miss Ellen Terry, Miss Mary Anderson[236]
——:o:——
Bret Harte.
Dickens in Camp[1]
Parodies in print, November, 1884[1]
Plain Language from Truthful James—
That Hebrew Ben D——, 1878[1]
Plain Language from Truthful Robert[3]
That Greenwich M.P. (on Mr. Gladstone)[244]
The Heathen M.P. (on Mr. Disraeli, in 1876)[245]
“Ben Diz was his name”[245]
On Chang, the Chinese Giant[245]
The Aged Stranger—
“I was with Grant” (Albert Grant) 1874[2]
Home, sweet Home, with variations, by Bret Harte, 1881[3]
His Finger, a Prose Parody[4]
The Return of Belisarius—
To “Auld Willie,” September, 1884[3]
“Jim”—
On Bret Harte[246]
——:o:——
Thomas Hood.
The Song of the Shirt—
The Night “Comp”[4]
The Song of the Dirt (Covent Garden in 1884)[4]
A Song of the Follies of Fashion, 1880[5]
The Overseer’s Lament in Australia, 1853, by M. P. Stoddart[255]
The Song of the Dirt, 1858[256]
The Song of the Student, 1854[256]
The Song of Exams. (Aberdeen)[257]
The Song of the Drink[257]
The Song of the Wheel[258]
The Song of the Sponge[258]
The Song of the Streets[259]
I Remember, I Remember—
A Parody of, by Phœbe Carey[4]
A Parody of, by Tom Hood, junior[5]
What it may come to (the House of Lords)[5]
Reminiscences of a Grinder (Aberdeen, 1854)[258]
Manchester Musings[259]
The Dream of Eugene Aram—
The Wanstead Home[5]
The Blue-coat Boys’ Ghost[5]
A Case of Conscience[259]
The Lost Child, or Russell’s Lament on the Loss of his Reform Bill, 1867[5]
“Our heads have met, and if thine smarts,”[258]
The Bridge of Sighs—
The Age of Sighs, 1868[259]
Old Year unfortunate (1885)[259]
——:o:——
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Excelsior—
Higher[6]
Diogenes, 1854[6]
Upwards, 1873[6]
M. Duruof, 1874[7]
The Excelsior Climbing Boy, 1875[7]
“The Swampy State of Illinois”[8]
The Dowager-Duchess at a Drawing Room[8]
“’Brellas to mend”[8]
On Mr. Disraeli’s first speech in Parliament[17]
The Workhouse (Bob)[17]
The Griffin[17]
The Country Fair (Minnie Mum.)[17]
What Roads! W. F. Field[18]
Sloper[18]
Divitior, 1858[250]
Nettle-rash (from St. Bartholomew’s)[251]
Young Lambs to sell[251]
U-pi-dee, by F. C. Burnand[251]
“Loved Arabella,” 1867[252]
Ye poor Mahdi, 1884[252]
“Ten thousand pounds”[253]
(re Maskelyne v. Irving Bishop)
A Psalm of Life—
What the young woman said to the old maid, by Phœbe Carey, 1854[11]
“Tell me not in doleful murmurs,” by Thomas Thatcher[11]
“Please be cheerful,” advice to Novelists[11]
A Psalm of Farming[12]
A Song of St. Stephen’s, 1882[12]
A Psalm of Burial (on Cremation)[12]
On Reading a Life and Letters[12]
An Imitation, by C. Baudelaire[24]
A Christmas Psalm of Life[246]
A Psalm for the Trade[246]
The Yankee Merchant to his book-keeper[247]
The Psalm of Life as exhibited in Christmas Annuals[247]
The Day Is Done—
A parody of, by Phœbe Carey, 1854[12]
The Arrow and the Song[13]
The Birds and the Pheasant, 1867[13]
The Ex-Premier (Mr. Gladstone), 1877[13]
The Arrow and the Hound, 1884[13]
The Bubble and the Bullet, by William Sawyer[248]
Beware!—
“I know a maiden fair to see” (Kate Vaughan)[9]
“I know a masher dark to see”[9]
“I know a youth who can flirt and flatter”[247]
“I know a Barber who in town doth dwell”[248]
“I know a maiden with a bag”[248]
The Song of the Oyster Land[248]
The Village Blacksmith.
Under Britannia’s spreading Oak, 1884[9]
The Low Bohemian, 1878[10]
The Village Schoolboy[10]
“Beside a Dingy Public-house,”[10]
The War Blacksmith, 1866[18]
The Lord Chancellor, Finis, 1877[19]
The Village Pet. R. E. Blow[21]
The City Blackleg[249]
“Before a Study of the Nude”[249]
The Norman Baron—
The Roman Prelate, by Walter Parke[249]
Voices of the Night—
Voices of our Nights, 1861[9]
The Old Clock on the Stairs[23]
Imitated by C. Baudelaire[24]
Flowers—
Flowers of Rotten Row in 1858[250]
The Bridge—
“I lay in my bed at midnight”[250]
The Arsenal at Springfield—
The Soirée, by Phœbe Carey, 1854[14]
Evangeline—
Dollarine; a tale of California, 1849[14]
The Lost tails of Miletus, by Bret Harte[15]
Mabel, the Made-up, Finis 1877[21]
The Song of Hiawatha—
Marks and Remarks on the Royal Academy, 1856[15]
The Great Medicine-Man, Punch, 1867[15]
Revenge, a Rhythmic Recollection[16]
The Song of Big Ben (Truth)[16]
The Song of Progress, 1884[16]
Le Calumet de Paix, by C. Baudelaire[24]
The Great Tichborne Demonstration[253]
Pahtahquahong, by Walter Parke[253]
The Song of Cetewayo, 1882[254]
The Printer’s Hiawatha[254]
La Belle Sauvage (Princess Pocahontas), 1870[255]
——:o:——
John Milton.
The Splendid Shilling, in imitation of Milton, by John Philips, 1700[217]
The Crooked Sixpence, by Bramston[219]
Wine, a Poem, 1709[219]
A Panegyric on Oxford Ale, 1822[221]
The Suet Dumpling[222]
The Copper Farthing, by Miss Pennington[222]
The School boy, by the Rev. Mr. Maurice[224]
The Opening of Parliament, (Prize Parody) by John Foote, 1880[225]
Another version, by H. Hamilton, 1880[226]
Prae-Existence, a poem in imitation of John Milton, by J. B., 1714[226]
Dr. Bentley’s alterations of Milton[226]
L’Allegro, and Il Penseroso—
Whitsuntide, by the Rev. George Huddersford, 1793[227]
Christmas     do.     do.[227]
The Garrulous Man, 1776[227]
L’Allegro; or Fun, a Parody[227]
The Hare Hunter, by Mundy, 1824[229]
Fashion, a Paraphrase of L’Allegro, 1814[229]
Ode on the Centennial Birthday of Burns, by Samuel Lover, 1859[231]
Football, by the Author of “The Idylls of the Rink,” 1883[231]
A Reading Man, 1824[233]
A Seaside Sonnet, after Milton-Oysters[233]
Milton’s Epitaph on Shakespeare[232]
Two Parodies on the same, from Punch, dated 1856 & 1863[232]
——:o:——
Edgar Allan Poe.
Sketch of his Career[25]
The Philosophy of Composition[26]
The Raven[27]
A Gentle Puff, 1845[28]
The Gazelle, by C. C. Cooke, 1845[28]
The Whippoorwill, 1845[29]
The Vulture, by Robert B. Brough, 1853[30]
The Tankard, by Edmund H. Yates, 1855[31]
The Parrot, by R. B. Brough, 1856[32]
The Cat-Fiend (in prose), 1868[32]
The Craven (Napoleon III), 1867[33]
The Tailor, by A. Merion, 1872[34]
The Shavin’, John F. Mill[35]
Chateaux d’Espagne, by H. S. Leigh[35]
A Ravin’. The Figaro, 1873[36]
Dunraven. Punch, 1881, 1884[36] [57]
The Dove, a Sentimental Parody. J. W. Scott[37]
Lines on the Death of Poe. Sarah J. Bolton[38]
My Christmas Pudding[39]
On a Fragment of a Five-dollar Bill[40]
Nothing More[40]
Her Pa’s Dog[40]
The Phantom Cat, by F. Field, 1868[41]
The Croaker, 1875[42]
The Stoker (on Dr. Kenealy), 1875. J. Verey[43]
The Raven, from the Liverpool Porcupine, 1875[44]
A Black Bird that could sing, but wouldn’t sing, 1876[45]
Cowgate Philanthrophy, 1876[46]
Lines to the Speaker of the House of Commons, from Truth, 1877[47]
The Baby, from Finis, 1877[48]
The Maiden, D. J. M., 1879[49]
The Promissory Note, Bayard Taylor[50]
The “Ager,” by J. P. Stelle[50]
The Chancellor and the Surplus, 1579[51]
The Raven, dedicated to the Duke of Somerset[52]
The Gold Digger, 1880[53]
Quart Pot Creek, by J. Brunton Stephens[54]
A Sequel, The Spirits, W. T. Ross[55]
The Drama Despondent, 1882[56]
A Voice[57]
The Ravenous Bull and the Bicycle[58]
A Cat-as-Trophy, in prose, 1866[58]
The End of “The Raven,” 1884[59]
Sequel to the Raven, by R. A. Lavender (a Spirit poem)[59]
A Vigil Vision, by H. Bickford[60]
Isadore, by Alfred Pike, 1843[61]
Plutonian Shore, by J. E. Tuel, 1849[70]
The Goblin Goose. Punch, 1881[71]
The College Craven. P. G. S., 1884[71]
The (C)raven Student[72]
Le Corbeau, by S. Mallarmé, 1875[72]
Vox Corvi, 1694[73]
Poe-tical Forgeries[73]
The Fire Fiend, September, 1864, by Charles D. Gardette[73]
Golgotha, by Charles D. Gardette[75]
The Raven, in Dublin[92]
The Raven, said to have been translated by Poe from a Persian Poem[92]
Sequel to the Raven, a Spiritual Poem by R. A. Lavender[93]
A Grand Poem, by Lizzie Doten, 1872[94]
Farewell to Earth, by Lizzie Doten[95]
The Vulture, by Somers Bellamy, 1885[136]
Spiritual Poems, in imitation of Poe, by Mrs. Lydia Tenney[93]
The Raven, by R. Allston Lavender[93]
A Grand Poem, by Lizzie Doten[94]
The Kingdom,   ”  ”[94]
Farewell to Earth  ”  ”[95]
Improvisations from the Spirit, by Dr. J. J. Garth Wilkinson, 1857[95]
Pot-Pourri, reprinted from the scarce New York Edition of 1875—
The Ruined Palace. (The Haunted Palace)[96]
Dream-Mere. (Dreamland)[96]
Israfiddlestrings. (Israfel)[97]
The Ghouls in the Belfry. (The Bells)[98]
Hullaloo. (Ulalume)[99]
To Any. (For Annie)[100]
Hannibal Leigh. (Annabel Lee)[101]
Raving. (The Raven)[102]
The Monster Maggot. (The Conqueror Worm)[102]
Poetic Fragments[103]
Under-Lines[103]
The Bells[75]
The Swells, by R. B. Brough, 1857[76]
The Ball-Room Belles. Fun. 1865[77]
Pills, by Damer Cape, 1866[77]
The Hells. The Tomahawk, 1867[78]
Christmas Fancies. Fun, 1867[79]
The Bells[79]
The Bills, by Thomas Hood, the younger, 1870[80]
The Flute[81]
The Chimes done in Rhymes, an American parody, 1871[81]
The Bills, from the Light Green, 1872[82]
The Bells, by an overworked Waiter, 1875[82]
The Girls[83]
The Bills, by a Mercantile Poet, 1875[83]
The Belles, Benjamin D——, 1876[83]
The Bills. The Corkscrew Papers, 1876[84]
The Swells. Worthy a Crown?[85]
The Bells. Fiz, 1878[85]
The Bills. Funny Folks, 1879[86]
The Hose. Puck, 1879[87]
The Bills. Punch, 1879[87]
Bills. Truth, 1880[88]
The Bells, Mr. Irving in, 1883[89]
The Voice of the Bells, by W. A. Eaton[89]
The Bills. Detroit Free Press[89]
“O! The Hammers,” by William Allan, 1883[90]
Reminiscences of Summer, 1883[90]
That Amateur Flute, an American Parody[90]
The Office Boy’s Mother in America[91]
Israfel—
Bisakel, by J. E. Dalton, 1880[91]
The Steed of Fire   ”   ”[91]
Annabel Lee[61]
Samuel Brown, by Phœbe Carey, 1854[61]
The Cannibal Flea, by Tom Hood, the younger[62]
The L. C. D. and the L. S. D. by Joseph Verey[62]
St. Rose of Lima, by Walter Parke, 1882[63]
Beautiful B—— (Wilson Barrett), J. W. G. W.[63]
Annabel Lee, from “Mr. and Mrs. Spoopendyke,” by Stanley Huntley[64]
Ulalume[64]
Paralune. Punch, 1881[64]
The Willows, by Bret Harte[65]
What is in a Name, by Thomas Hood, junior[65]
You’ll Resume. Punch, 1882[66]
Hope; An Allegory, by John H. Ingram[66]
Covent Garden. Fun, 1867[68]
The Kingdom, a Spirit poem, by Lizzie Doten[94]
Lenore
The Supper of the Four, by A. Merion, 1872[67]
For Annie[68]
Tristan and Isolde, by J. W. G. W.[68]
Ligiea—
Hygiea. Punch, 1880[69]
The Demon of the Doldrums[69]
——:o:——
William Shakespeare.
A Prologue, in imitation of Othello’s address tothe Senate[144]
Correspondence in The Daily News, 1883, concerningthe Gaiety burlesques of The Tempest, andHamlet, including letters from Mr. Moy Thomas,Mr. W. Kennedy, Mr. John Hollingshead, andMr. F. C. Burnand[144]
The Daily News on Shakespearian Burlesques, October 25, 1884[205]
Dreary Song for Dreary Summer, by Shirley Brooks, 1860[205]
Shakespoke’s Epigram, by J. G. Dalton[205]
The Shakespeare Monument Committee, 1823[205]
The “New Shakspere Society,” and Mr. F. J. Furnivall[162]
THE TEMPEST—
The Tempest; or, the Enchanted Isle, by Sir W. Davenant and John Dryden[146]
The Enchanted Isle; or, Raising the Wind, by R. B.and W. Brough, produced at the Adelphi Theatre,1848, with the cast[203]
Ariel, by F. C. Burnand, produced at the Gaiety Theatre, October, 1883, with the cast[204]
Where the Bee Sucks[204]
Who would be Great Grand Lord High? By J. R. Planché[204]
“Our Revels now are ended”[204]
“Those Golden pallaces,” by Lord Stirling[204]
“Our Parodies are ended”[204]
MEASURE FOR MEASURE—
“Take, O, Take Those Lips Away”[188]
Take, O, take that bill away[188]
Take, O, take the haunch away, by W. H. Ireland, 1803[188]
Take, O, take that wreath away (to Mr. Tracy Turnerelli)[189]
I bought thee late a golden wreath (after Ben Jonson)[189]
Take, O, take Parnell away, 1882[189]
Ay, but to die, and go we know not where[244]
Ay, but to love, and not be loved again[244]
Oh, but to fade, and live we know not where,by Phœbe Carey[169]
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING—
“Sigh no more, Ladies”[202]
Rail no more, Tories, 1823[202]
Sigh no more, Dealers, 1867[203]
A MIDSUMMER-NIGHT’S DREAM—
Act I. A Midsummer Nightmare, 1885[197]
Act II. The Casting of the Cabinet, 1885[197]
“That very time I saw,” by Phœbe Carey[169]
I Know a Bank[198]
I know a Bank (a monody on Money), 1879[198]
I know a Bank (at Paddington), 1883[198]
I am that merry wanderer of the night (Lord R. Churchill)[199]
THE MERCHANT OF VENICE—
Shylock; or, the Merchant of Venice Preserved; by F. Talfourd. Produced at the Olympic Theatre, 1853[179]
“What find I here? Fair Portia’s counterfeit”[180]
Tell me, where is Fancy bred?[180]
Tell me, what is Fancy Bread?[180]
A Parody by J. R. Planché, 1843[204]
The Quality of Mercy is not strained—
The Jollity of Nursey is not feigned, 1883[180]
This Quality of Jelly must be strained, 1880[180]
The Quality of Flirting is not strained[204]
AS YOU LIKE IT—
The Seven Ages of Man[169]
“All the Town’s a Slide,” 1850[172]
“All the World’s a Stable”[174] [242]
“All the World’s away” (for the holidays)[241]
“All Parliament’s a Stage” (Political)[241]
“All the Night’s a Stage” (on noises)[242]
“All the Day’s a Plague” (on street noises)[242]
“All the World’s a Newspaper,” 1824[195]
The Stage Coach Company, 1803[170]
The Patriot’s Progress, 1814[170]
The Seven Ages of Woman[170] [174]
The Seven Ages of Æstheticism[171]
The Seven Ages of Intemperance, 1834[171]
The Poetry of the Steam Engine, 1846[172]
The Seven Ages of the French Republic, 1848[172]
The Seven Ages of a Public Man, 1855[172]
The Catalogue of the British Museum[173]
The Seven Ages in Mincing Lane, 1868[173]
The Politician’s Seven Ages, 1868[173]
The Seven Ages of Acting, 1884[174]
The Seven Ages of Love, 1881[174]
The Seven Carriages of Man, 1885[174]
The Seven Drinks of Man, 1885[175]
The Seven Courses at Dinner[241] [242]
The Seven Ages of Cricket[242]
The Seven Ages of a Clergyman[243]
The Seven Ages of a Politician[243]
The Seven Forms of Insanity[243]
The Seven Ages of a Sailor[243]
The Seven Ages of Fashion[244]
“Dinner is a Stage,” by F. B. Doveton[240]
“Parliament’s a Stage” (Political)[241]
Bud, Blossom, and Decay, by T. F. D. Croker[195]
Jaques in Capel Court, 1845 (Gambling on the Stock Exchange)[171]
A Paraphrase, by E. L Blanchard, 1866[196]
Oxford is a Stage, 1868[196]
A Shakespearian after-dinner Recitation, by F. Upton,[196]
A Fool, a fool! I met a fool i’ the Forest[194]
The same, with a cold in the head (at Combe)[194]
A Dude—a dude! I met a dude[195]
Blow, blow thou Winter Wind, a parody on[176]
Lines on Mrs. Langtry as Rosalind, 1882[176]
Lines on Miss Mary Anderson as Rosalind, at Stratford-on-Avon, August, 1885[244]
Under the Greenwood Tree[196]
Under the Greenwood Shed, by Shirley Brooks, 1866[197]
A WINTER’S TALE—
Perdita, or the Royal Milkmaid, by William Brough.Produced at the Lyceum Theatre, 1856, with the cast[200]
Zapolya, a Christmas Tale by S. T. Coleridge, 1817[200]
KING JOHN—
King John Burlesque, by G. A. A’Beckett. Produced at the St. James’s Theatre in 1837[199]
Cast of Characters in the burlesque, and extractsfrom it[199]
KING HENRY V.—
Prologue Act IV.[201]
Lord Mayor’s Day, 1827[201]
RICHARD THE THIRD—
“Now is the Winter of our discontent”[189]
“The World” Parody, Competition. The return of Lord Chelmsford from Zululand[190]
Cetewayo’s Soliloquy[190]
King Richard ye Third, by Charles Selby, at theStrand Theatre in 1844[190]
The Rise and Fall of Richard III., or a new Front toan old Dicky, by F. C. Burnand, at the RoyaltyTheatre in 1868, with the Cast[191]
Richard III, Travestie, by William By, 1816[191]
Richard III. Burlesque, by J. Sterling Coyne, 1844[191]
KING HENRY VIII.—
Cardinal Wolsey’s Farewell[191]
Henry Irving’s Farewell, 1875[191]
Mr. Gladstone’s Farewell to his Old China, 1875[191]
A Parody in College Rhymes[192]
ROMEO AND JULIET—
I do remember an old Bachelor, 1832[176]
I do remember a Cook’s shop[176]
I do remember a young pleader, by G. Wentworth, 1824[176]
I do remember a strange man, a herald, by R. Surtees[177]
Ha! I remember a low sort of shop, by J. R. Planché[204]
The Shakespeare of the Period, 1869—
Romeo and Juliet, as arranged by T. W. Robertson[177]
Romeo and Juliet, as arranged by T. Maddison Morton[178]
Romeo and Juliet as arranged by H. J. Byron[178]
  Do.    Do. as arranged by Dion Boucicault[178]
Romeo and Juliet Travestie, by Andrew Halliday.Produced at the Strand Theatre, 1859[179]
Romeo and Juliet; or, the Shaming of the True.Performed at Oxford during Commemoration, 1868[179]
JULIUS CÆSAR.
The Speech of Brutus over the Body of Cæsar[192]
The Poacher’s Apology[192]
Marc Antony’s Speech[192]
Parody Competition in The Weekly Dispatch, June 28, 1885.[193]
A Speech by Sir W. Harcourt, by T. A. Wilson[193]
A Speech by John Bright, by H. L. Brickel[193]
On Mr. Gladstone leaving Office, by George Mallinson[193]
MACBETH.
Macbeth, in a Song from Rejected Addresses[181]
The Incantation on Penenden Plain, 1828[181]
Is this a Sovereign which I feel behind me? 1852[182]
Macbeth Travestie, in Accepted Addresses[182]
Macbeth Travestie, by F. Talfourd, 1847. Performedat Henley; at the Strand Theatre in 1848; and atthe Olympic Theatre in 1853[182]
Making the Pudding; a Christmas Incantation[183]
The Modern Macbeth. H. Savile Clarke, 1885[183]
Shakespeare’s Recipe for cooking a Beef Steak[184]
M. Alexis Soyer’s Soup for the Poor (on the Incantation Scene)[239]
Macbeth’s Soliloquy parodied, 1830[240]
Shakespeare’s Ghost on the New Apocalypse August, 1885[240]
HAMLET.
To be, or not to be (from the 1623 folio edition)[146]
Oh, say! To be, or not to be? As a song, from George Cruikshank’s Almanac, 1846[146]
To Be, or not to Be? By T. Thatcher[146]
To Be, or not to Be? On London’s Municipal Reform, 1884[147]
To Be, or not to Be? By Mark Twain[147]
To Be, or not to Be? As supposed to be amended by Mr. F. J. Furnivall[163]
To Act, or not to Act? (on Speculation)[147]
To Affiliate, or not to Affiliate?[148]
To Bake, or not to Bake? Advertisement[148]
To Bathe, or not to Bathe?[148]
To Bee, or not to Bee? (Spelling Bee)[148]
To Be, or not to Be? (Gladstone’s Soliloquy) Prize Parody by Jessie H. Wheeler[149]
To Box, or not to Box?[149]
Burgh, or No-Burgh? From the Ardrossan Herald[146]
Canal, or no Canal? By F. B. Cottier (on the Suez Canal)[150]
To Cheat, or not to Cheat? By an Attorney[150]
Clôture or no Clôture? Punch, 1882[151]
To Come, or not to Come? For a Bashful Reciter, by Henry J. Finn[151]
Compromise, or no Compromise? 1884[151]
To Dance, or not to Dance? Judy, 1871[151]
To Drink, or not to Drink? American Paper[152]
Ditto   ditto    Punch, 1841[152]
Ditto   ditto    From Hamlet Travestie, by F. Talfourd, 1849[152]
To Dun, or not to Dun? The Mirror, 1823[152]
To Dye, or not to Dye? The Tomahawk, 1869[153]
To Dig, or not to Dig? J. M. Dron (Another proposed Suez Canal)[150]
Etre, ou ne pas être! A French version[162]
A Flea, or not a Flea? by James Robinson[153]
To Fight, or not to Fight? 1823[202]
To Go, or not to Go? Ophelia’s Version.[153]
To Have it out, or not? A Dental Soliloquy[153]
To Hiss, or not to Hiss? The Puppet Show[154]
To Hunt, or not to Hunt? The Mirror, 1823[154]
To Pay, or not to Pay? The Debtor’s Soliloquy, by F. J. Overton, 1881[154]
To Pay, or not to Pay? (on the Suez Canal). by Leonard Harding[150]
To be, or not to be Polite? Gossip, 1885[155]
To Print, or not to Print? Rev. R. Jago[155]
To Yield, or not to Yield? (To the Tories)[149]
To Rat, or not to Rat? Once a Week, 1868[155]
To Smoke, or not to Smoke?[244]
To Sleep, or not to Sleep? O. P. Q. P. Smiff[162]
To Shave, or not to Shave? Diogenes, 1854[155]
Ditto   ditto by T. F. Dillon-Croker[156]
To Starve, or not to Starve? W. H. Ireland[156]
To Sniggle, or to Dibble? by F. C. Burnand[202]
To Stick to Hoy, or not? The Argus, 1831[157]
To Stitch, or not to Stitch? The Mirror[157]
To Strike, or not to Strike? by a Cabman, 1867,[157]
To Stand, or not to Stand, 1808[161]
Trousers, or no Trousers? (The Bloomer Question) The Month, 1851[158]
Tubby, or not Tubby? by F. C. Burnand[161]
To Urn, or not to Urn? by William Sawyer[161]
To Vaccinate, or not? 1881[158]
To Wash, or not to Wash? by J. P. Roberdeau, 1803[158]
To Write, or not to Write? The New Lady’s Magazine, 1786[160]
On the Marriage Question.
To Wed, or not to Wed? The New Lady’s Magazine, 1786[158]
To Woo, or not to Woo? Posthumous Parodies, 1814[159]
To Wed, or not to Wed? by W. A. Clouston[159]
Marry, or not to Marry? Political Note Book, 1824[159]
To Wed, or not to Wed? Echoes from the Clubs, 1868[159]
Ditto   ditto, Anonymous[161]
To Be, or not to Be (married)? by W. H. Edmunds[160]
To Pop, or not to Pop the fatal question?[160]
When a man becomes tired of his life (Song foundedon the Soliloquy)[162]
The Soliloquy in Hebrew, 1880[202]
Hamlet in Prose, 1848[202]
The Ghost Scene parodied[203]
Hamlet Travestie, by John Poole, 1810[161]
Hamlet, or, not such a fool as he looks, by the Author of “The Light Green” 1882[160]
Very Little Hamlet, by W. Yardley, at the Gaiety Theatre, 1884[164]
Hamlet Travestie, by F. Talfourd, 1849[164]
Three Children sliding on the Ice[162]
Furnivallos Furioso and the Newest Shakespeare Society, 1876[163]
The advice of Polonius to Laertes, a Parody of, by H. J. Byron[164]
Hamlet’s instructions to the Players, Parody of, by W. S. Gilbert, in The Pretty Druidess, 1869[165]
See what an incubus sits on our City, 1882[165]
Look here upon this picture, and on this[165]
A Parody Cigarette Advertisement[165]
Parody of the scene between Polonius and Ophelia, by F. Talfourd[165]
The Barrow Diggers, an Antiquarian conversation in imitation of the Grave Diggers Scene, 1839[167]
An Irish Play bill, 1793[169]
Ben Dizzy patch’d and mended for to-day, Fiz, 1879[169]
Hamlet from a new point of view[164]
OTHELLO—
Othello’s Speech to the Senate[184]
The Strolling Player’s Apology[184]
Kenealy’s Speech to the Senate, 1875[184]
“Good name, in Man and Woman”[185]
A Parody in the Ingoldsby Legends[185]
Farewell, the tranquil mind![185]
A Parody, by George Colman[185]
The Undertaker’s Farewell, 1849[185]
Farewell the quiet chop! (at Evans’s) 1879[185]
Shakespeare’s Farewell[185]
Address by J. P. Kemble. (O.P. Riots, 1810)[186]
William IV. and Reform, 1832, Parody of a scene from Othello[186]
Punch and Lord John Russell, 1848[187]
Henry Irving as Othello[187]
Othello Travestie, an Operatic Burlesque Burletta,by Maurice G. Dowling, produced at Liverpoolin 1834, and at the Strand Theatre[188]
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA—
An Extravaganza, founded on Antony and Cleopatra,by F. C. Burnand, produced at the HaymarketTheatre, 1866[201]
CYMBELINE—
Fear no more the heat o’ the Sun[193]
Fear no more the voice of the don, 1872[194]
“Our Parodies are ended”[204]
——:o:——
King Queer, and his Daughters Three, at the Strand Theatre, 1855[205]
A Coriolanus Travestie, by J. Morgan, produced in Liverpool, 1846[205]
——:o:——
Miss Ann Taylor.
My Mother[106]
A History of the poem “My Mother”[106]
My Mary, by William Cowper[107]
My Mother, by an Outcast[107]
 ”  ”  by F. Talfourd[167]
My Mother-in-Law[108]
Mothers. The Humourist[143]
My Baedeker, from Tracts in Norway[143]
My Banker. Punch 1855[111]
 ”  ”  Judy 1879[142]
My Barrett (Mr. Wilson Barrett), 1884[111]
My Bismarck. Judy 1867[112]
My Broker. Punch 1875[111]
My Brother[142]
 ”  ”  The Boys Own Paper, 1884[109]
My Father[134]
My Mother[134]
My Brother[134]
My Sister[135]
My Boot-Hooks. The Man in the Moon[113]
My Bicycle. J. G. Dalton[113]
My Bishop. Thomas Moore[123]
My Chignon. Girl of the Period[113]
My Client. Punch, 1875[111] [112]
My Dentist. R. E. Egerton-Warburton[113]
My Father. Truth, 1877[127]
My Godwin. J. and H. Smith[121]
My Hairs. Thomas Hood[114]
My Hookah[114]
My Jenny (on Jenny Lind)[114]
My Landlady. Figaro Album[115]
My Lodger. Judy, 1869[115]
My Little-go. College Rhymes, 1865[115]
My Member. Punch, 1852[116]
My Murray. Punch, 1857[116]
My Miguel. Thomas Moore[122]
My Nose. John Jones[116]
My Punch[117]
My Relations. Funny Folks, 1879[108]
My Stockings[117]
My Tutor. Paulopostprandials, 1883[143]
My Tailor, by a Man of Fashion[117]
My Ticker. Punch, 1842[118]
My Uncle (ascribed to Louis Napoleon)[118]
My Uncle. Punch, 1845[118]
My Uncle. John Taylor[118]
My Uncle. Punch, 1871[119]
My Valentine. Judy, 1880[119]
My Whalley. The Tomahawk, 1867[119]
My Whiskers. The Belle Assemblée, 1833[120]
My Yot. Punch, 1880[120]
A Lay of Real Life[109]
Audi Alteram Partem[110]
Harry’s Complaint[110]
A Sister’s Complaint[110]
“Another,” by J. W. G. W.[135]
Avitor, by Bret Harte[132]
“Baby” at the Strand Theatre, Fun, 1879[128]
Blucher, Cambridge Odes[123]
Cattle Show Queries[132]
Free Trade v. Protection, Punch, 1849[124]
Her Mother, Finis[109]
Her Mother, Funny Folks[132]
King Clicquot, Punch, 1855[125]
Lines by a Girl of the Future, 1869[126]
L. S. D. (Money), Figaro, 1874[127]
Nobody[132]
Nursy-Pursy, The Tomahawk, 1869[108]
Our Bishops, Jon Duan, 1874[127]
Our Sunday down East, Punch, 1880[129]
Our Marquis, Truth, 1884[130]
The Turncock, Punch, 1843[124]
The Ramoneur, Punch, 1843[124]
The Baker. Punch, 1853[124]
The Poet, C. Rae Brown, 1855[125]
The Baby Show, Cuthbert Bede, 1856[126] [108]
The Russians, Benjamin D——, 1876[127]
The “Doctor,” Funny Folks, 1877[128]
The Weather, Truth, 1879[128]
The Weather, Punch, 1881[129]
The Egyptian Baby (Tewfik)[130]
The Fog, Judy, 1882[130]
The Mahdi, The Referee, 1884[130]
The Lords. H. E. Harker[131]
The “Comp.”[131]
The Newspaper, 1823[122]
The Proctor, The Gownsman, 1831[123]
The Slug, Judy, 1873[141]
The Fog, Judy, 1876[141]
The Nervous, The Argosy, 1866[142]
The Bible[133]
The Orange[133]
The People’s William, Ipswich Journal, 1885[131]
Tight Lacing, Truth, 1879[128]
Your Friend, Countess of Blessington[120]
Another Friend (a Stick)[121]
Woman, L. O. Shaw 1815[121]
Velluti, 1828[122]
Valentine (the Curate)[142]
What the Seasons bring[130]
Who? Ah, who? The Figaro, 1874[110]
Who’s who in 1851. Punch, 1851[112]
——:o:——
Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
Mariana—
Mariana on the Second Floor, 1851[260]
Mary Anne; or the Law of Divorce, 1858[260]
The Owl’d Yarn, by R. F. Hind[261]
Oriana—
Yule Tide (Oh, my Gracious!)[261]
The Ballad of Hoary Anna[261]
Idadæca, from Kottabos, 1881[262]
Randy-Pandy, by George Cotterell, 1885[203]
Lady Clara Vere de Vere—
Miss Matilda Johnson Jones, by Gilbert Abbot à Beckett, 1845[263]
The Merman—
The Mer(ry)man, by George Cotterell[264]
The May Queen—
“You must save me from the Jingoes,” by J. Arthur Elliott[139]
Hodge’s Emancipation, by John H. Gibson[140]
Outside the Lyceum, April, 1885[140]
The Lord Mayor[264]
The May Queen with a cold[264]
Russia to England[265]
At the Play[265]
The Lotus Eaters—
The Onion Eaters[140]
A Dream of Fair Women—
A Vision of Great Men[265]
A Dream of Fair Drinking[265]
A Dream of Unfair Trade[265]
Ulysses—
The Czar of Russia[265]
Locksley Hall—
Lay of Boxing Night, 1847[266]
Lincoln’s Inn, by Albert Smith, 1851[266]
St. Stephen’s Revisited, by G. Cotterell[267]
The Grinder, March, 1885[267]
Digwell’s Lament, 1865[267]
Godiva—
Whittington, 1858[268]
The Eagle, and a Parody[268]
Break, Break, Break—
“Block, block, block,” by G. Cotterell[263]
“Sleep, sleep, sleep,” by F. Field[209]
The Lost Joke[269]
“Talk, talk, talk!” (to Mr. Parnell)[269]
“Wake, wake, wake!” by R. H. W. Yeabsley[269]
“Thirst, thirst, thirst!”[269]
“Broke, broke, broke!”[269]
Who breaks pays[269]
Gladstone hath us in his net[270]
The Brook—
The Song of the Flirt[270]
The Mont Cenis Train, 1868[270]
The Corn, by Jayhay, 1878[271]
The River, a Steamboat version[271]
The Song of the Steam Launch[272]
The Sherbrooke. A Lowe Ballad[272]
A Lay of Lawn Tennis[272]
Home they brought her Warrior dead—
Home they brought her “Worrier” dead[273]
“Let me lie here,” by John Cotton[273]
Give me no more[140]
“The Slander falls in different halls”[273]
Tears, Idle Tears—
Tears, maudlin Tears[141]
The Charge of the Light Brigade—
The Light (Blue) Brigade—The University Boat Race[273]
The Gas Stoker’s Strike, by J. Verey, 1873[274]
Clapham Junction, by J. Verey[274]
The Charge of the “Light” Brigade, by C. T. Druery[274]
The Charge of the Heavy Brigade at Kassassin[275]
The Charge of the Fire Brigade[275]
A Welcome to Alexandra—
Stradella, by Rose Grey, 1863[275]
A Welcome to Battenberg, Funny Folks[136]
In Tennysoniam, by Albert Smith, 1851[276]
A Parody of Tennyson’s Prefatory Sonnet for “The Nineteenth Century”[276]
Wages, Judy[140]
Idylls of the King—
A Parody of the Dedication (on John Brown)[276]
A little rift within the lute[277]
“Too soon, too soon”[277]
“Little Miss Muffet” as an Arthurian Idyll[277]
Despair, 1881—
Never say die[278]
Hands all round, by John Phelan[278]
The Fleet (April, 1885), The Times[137]
The Bard (on his reported imbecility)[137] [138]
A Laurel. J. Fox Turner[137]
“We, we.” E. S. Watson[137]
Tennyson (on his reported lunacy)[137]
Tennyson Tackled. Punch[137]
Our Fleet. Moonshine[138]
Parody Competition Poems on The Fleet.—
Prize Parody, by Mrs. Emily Lawrence[138]
A Conservative (on his leader’s reported inefficiency). Henry L. Brickell[138]
The Government. John Carter[139]
The Laureate. Exe[135]
The Corporation. Thomas H. Knight[139]
To the Jingo. George Mallinson[139]
To the Jingo. Edward Scott[139]
Gladstone’s Rebuke. Jesse H. Wheeler[139]
The Unfitness of the Meat, by F. B. Doveton[279]
Lines to Princess Beatrice on her Marriage[279]
Two Suns of Love make day of human life[279]
Two Moons for thee of honey and of strife[279]
Two sums of cash will fill a German purse[279]
Two tones of love make woe of married life[279]
Two things, no doubt, make day of married life[280]
Two tricks of trade make bearable my life[280]
Two sorts of grants make rich the royal train[280]
Two bridal loves make laugh of “You, you’s” song[280]
Tennyson on General Gordon[141]
——:o:——
Isaac Watts, D.D.
How doth the little busy Bee[206]
How doth the little busy Flea[206] [208]
How doth the ever busy Wasp[207]
How doth the busy Russian Bee, 1875[207]
How doth the dizzy Disraeli, 1858[207]
How doth the lively Spelling Bee, 1876[207]
How doth the little busy Wheeze[207]
How doth the busy Parliament, 1876[208]
How doth the little Crocodile[208]
How doth the little Mosquito[208]
How doth the honest Land League man, 1881[208]
How doth the little coal-hole top[208]
How doth the very Bizzy Bee (Bismarck)[209]
How doth the gorging, greedy Bee[209]
How doth the wobbling, wily wops[209]
Buggins’s Variations of the Busy Bee[209]
A Prose Version[207]
Let Dogs delight to bark and bite[210]
Let Canine Animals, 1847[210]
Let Austria delight to bark and bite, 1854[210]
Let peaceful Bright in speech delight, 1854[210]
Let Lords delight to bark and bite, 1869[210]
Let Rads delight to bark and bite[211]
Let Bigots write with sneers of spite[211]
Let Fools and Bullies brawl and fight[211]
Let Cads delight with fists to fight[212]
Let Frenchmen fight with kick and bite[215]
Whigs in their cosy berths agree, 1849[210]
Birds in their little nests agree[211]
Oh, Marcus! You should never let[211]
On a Fracas at Newmarket, 1883[211]
To a Policeman[212]
When Bishops, who in wealth abound[216]
’Tis the voice of the Sluggard[212]
’Tis the moan of old Louis (of France), 1823[212]
’Tis the voice of the lobster[212]
’Tis the voice of the Czar, 1879[213]
’Tis the voice of the Rinker[213]
’Tis the voice of Britannia[213]
’Tis the voice of the glutton[213]
’Tis the voice of the oyster[213]
’Twas the voice of the “Special”[213]
A Parody from Funny Folks[212]
The Wise one and the Foolish[213]
Whene’er I take my walks abroad[214]
Do.   do. in London Streets[214]
The Irish Landlord’s Song[214]
I cannot take my walks abroad[214]
Another Version, by Shirley Brooks[215]
Whene’er abroad we take our walks (in Covent Garden)[215]
Abroad in the Boroughs[215]
How sweet a thing it is to dwell[216]
Why should I relieve my neighbour[216]
A Paraphrase on Dr. Watts’ Distich on the Study of Languages, 1792[216]