INDEX.

The Authors of the original poems are arranged in alphabetical order; the titles of the original poems are printed in italics, followed by the Parodies. The Authors of the Parodies are named in italics.

A Bibliography of the Parodies of Charles Dickens[224]
A Bibliography of French Parodies[323]
Bibliography of Scriptural Parodies[312]
Books and Periodicals dealing with Parody[345]
Books of Reference on Slang, Cant, and “Argot”[282]
Burlesques of Educational Works[328]
English Burlesques of the Classics[325]
Literary Forgeries and Impostures[322]
Mock Heroic Poems[179]
Plays founded on Charles Dickens’s Novels[226]
Theatrical Burlesques and Travesties[331]
Ballades; Rondeaus; Villanelles, etc.
The Ballade (See Swinburne).
The Ballade in Bad Weather. J. Ashby Sterry[64]
A Ballade of Old Metres[64]
A Young Poet’s Advice[64]
Ballade of Old Law Books[65]
Ballade of the Honest Lawyer[65]
Ballade of Leading Cases[65]
Ballade of the Timid Bard[65]
Ballade of a Ballade Monger. G. White[85]
Ballade of Primitive Man. Andrew Lang[85]
Ballade of Primitive Woman. American[85]
The Doom of the Muses. H. D. Traill[86]
Austin Dobson—Andrew Lang[86]
Ballade of the Best Pipe[145]
Ballade of Tobacco[145]
The Villanelle[65]
J’ay perdu ma tourterelle[66]
When I saw you last, Rose[66]
A Villanelle, after Oscar Wilde[66]
The Street Singer. Austin Dobson[66]
Culture in the Slums. W. E. Henley[66]
In Wain! Punch[67]
Jean Passerat, I like thee well[87]
It’s all a trick. W. W. Skeat[87]
We are Cook’s Tourists. H. C. Bunner[87]
Dewy-eyed with shimmering hair[88]
The Triolet (in a Temper)[67]
Le premier jour du mois de mai[67]
I wished to sing my love[67]
How to fashion a Triolet[67]
Triolets by Austin Dobson[86]
With Pipe and Book[146]
The Rondeau (in a Rage)[67]
Ma foi, c’est fait de moi[68]
You bid me try. Austin Dobson[68]
Why do I wander wildly?[68]
Culture in the Slums. W. E. Henley[68]
That dear old Tune[86]
In corsets laced[87]
Chant Royal.
Behold the Deeds. H. E. Bunner[68]
Rondels.
Two Rondels[68]
You bet! you hear me[86]
We have a most erotic bard[86]
In a Cloud of smoke[146]
Roundel.
The cat that sings[87]
Robert Browning.
Mr. R. Browning’s objection to Parodies[46]
Waitress, with eyes so marvellous black[19]
A Motto! Just a catch-word[26]
How they brought the Good News from Ulundi to Landsman’s Drift. The World[47]
How I won the Challenge Shield[47]
The Pied Piper of Hamelin[48]
The Bagpiper of Midlothian[48]
The Red Piper of Westminster[49]
Poets and Linnets. Tom Hood[49]
The Quest of Barparlo. Judy[49]
Wanting is—what?
Browning is—what?[49]
Loving is—what?[49]
Wooing is—what?[50]
A Billiard Mystery[50]
Come is the Comer[50]
The Lost Leader.
The Latest News. Fun[50]
A Story of Girton[51]
The Losing Leader[52]
The Patriot, and two Parodies[51]
A Parleying with a certain person of no importance (Joseph Chamberlain)[51]
Two Sides[52]
My Kate[52]
Lays of a Lover[52]
Post Chronology. O. M. Brown[52]
R. Browning’s Lines on the “Jubilee,” and a Parody[52]
The Poets at Tea[52]
Angelo orders his Dinner. Bayard Taylor[53]
Any Pleader to any Student[53]
The Cock and the Bull. C. S. Calverley[53]
John Jones. The Heptalogia[54]
Articles on Robert Browning’s Poems[54]
Browning Societies[54]
Take them, Chum, the book and me together[55]
Austin Dobson.
This was the Pompadour’s Fan[61]
A Ballade of the Grosvenor Gallery[61]
A Ballade of Five o’clock Tea[62]
Ballade of Pot-Pourri[62]
Other Ballades,[62], [64]
Tu Quoyue (by permission)[62]
An Idyll of the Lobby. Pall Mall[63]
The Prodigals. W. E. Henley[63]
John Dryden.
Alexander’s Feast[169]
Shakespeare’s Feast, 1769[170]
Prancer’s Feast, 1779[171]
The Grand Portsmouth Puppet-show, 1786[171]
The Covent Garden Row. (O. P.) 1810[172]
Sir Francis Burdett’s Feast, 1814[172]
Commemoration Day, 1824[172]
Ode to a Wrangler’s Spread[173]
The Kennington Common Revolution, 1848[173]
Josh Hudson’s Feast[174]
Alexander (Henderson’s) Feast, 1884[175]
Three Poets, in three distant ages born[175]
Parallel passages and imitations[176]
The Hind and the Panther.
The Country Mouse and the City Mouse[176]
John Keats.
Who killed John Keats?[193]
La Belle Dame sans merci[193]
Ode on a Jar of Pickles. Bayard Taylor[193]
A thing of Beauty is a joy for ever
A Locomotive is a joy for ever[194]
Frederick Locker-Lampson.
Biographical Notes, [55], [85]
St. James’s Street, and a pirated version[56]
St. Giles. Henry S. Leigh[57]
Tempora Mutantur! and a Parody[57]
Bramble Rise[57]
A song at Sixty[57]
His Girl[58]
An Invitation to Rome[58]
Mr. Gladstone in Rome[58]
From the Cradle, and a Parody[58]
A Gallery of Fair Women[59]
Something Praedesque. Mortimer Collins[59]
London’s “Suez Canal.” H. C. Pennell[60]
Songsters of the Day. Time[60]
On Frederick Locker[61]
Nursery Rhymes.
Introductory Notes[101]
The House that Jack built[101]
Hebrew version[101]
Political Parodies of this Rhyme[102]
Version written for the O. P. Riots[103]
Parodies in The Ingoldsby Lyrics[103]
The Palace that Nash built[103]
The Crystal Palace that Fox built[103]
The House that Barry built[103]
The Water that John drinks[104]
The Show that Sham built[104]
The Mine that Lyon struck[104]
The Land of Austra-lia[104]
The Ship that Jack built[104]
The House that John built[104]
This is the Radical Bradlaugh[104]
This is the Face that Art made[105]
The House that any one built[105]
The Bicycle that Jack made[105]
The House that Tithe built[105]
The Mitchelstown Murders[106]
This is the Toy. Truth.[106]
The Boat that Jack built[106]
Behold the Mansion reared by Daedal Jack. E. L. Blanchard[106]
The Jubilee Coercion Bill[107]
The House that Bowen built[107]
The Domiciliary Edifice erected by John[107]
A Sermon on this Rhyme[108]
Mary had a Little Lamb
Austin Dobson’s Version[88]
Robert Browning’s Version[88]
H. W. Longfellows’s Version[88]
Andrew Lang’s Version[88]
A. C. Swinburne’s Version[88]
Parodies on “Mary had a Little Lamb”[125]
Sing a Song of Sixpence[108]
Latin Versions, [108], [109]
The Song of the Cover. Bentley’s Miscellany[108]
French Version[109]
Sing a Song of Christmas[109]
A Version in “Pidgin” English[109]
Carol forth a Canticle[109]
Sing a Song of Season[109]
Sing a Song of Dollars[110]
Sing a Song of Native Art[110]
Sing a Song of Gladness[110]
The Cabman’s Shelter. Punch[110]
The Song of Science[110]
The English Illustrated Magazine[110]
Fifty Thousand nimble Shillings[111]
Sing a Song of Jingo[111]
Sing a Song of Eightpence[111]
Sing a Song of Saving[111]
The Jubilee Coinage[111]
Sing a Song of Gladstone[111]
Sing a Song of Scaffolds, of Gunnery, of French Pence, of Chamberlain, of Armaments, of Tricksters, of Libels, of Dynamite[112]
Who killed Cock Robin?
Who’ll teach the Prince? Punch, 1843[114]
Who killed these Arabs?[114]
Who killed Home Rule?[114]
Who killed Gladstone?[115]
Who won Miss Jenny?[115]
Who’ll kill Coercion?[116]
Who stole O’Brien’s Breeches?[116]
Who killed Cock Warren?[122]
Jack and Jill, and Parodies, [116], [122]
Hey! Diddle Diddle[117]
An Æsthetic Version[117]
Mr. Escott’s Version[117]
This Pig went to Market. Latin Version[116]
The Bells of London Town, and Parodies[113]
Mistress Mary, and a Latin Version[117]
A Revised Edition[118]
Political Parodies[118]
Old Mother Hubbard, as a Sermon[118]
Little Jack Horner, Latin Versions[119]
Little Lord Randy[119]
Thirty Days hath September[123]
A French Version[123]
Dirty days hath September[123]
A Summery Summary[123]
Mems. for 1885[123]
The Three Jovial Huntsmen
he Three Jolly Ratsmen[124]
The Three Jovial Welshmen[124]
Three Children Sliding on the Ice[124]
A Latin Version[124]
Thank you, Pretty Cow that made[125]
Thank you, Pretty Spotted Snake[125]
What are you doing, my Pretty Maid?[128]
Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, [122], [161]
Mica, mica, parva Stella[161]
Tinkle, tinkle horrid bell[161]
Monument to Temple Bar[162]
Shine with Irregular Light[162]
Sprinkle, Sprinkle, Water Cart[162]
Twinkle, twinkle, Morning Star[162]
Tinkle, tinkle, Tramway Car[163]
Twinkle, twinkle, Prosecutar[163]
Wrinkles, wrinkles, Solar Star[163]
Tyndall, Tyndall, Learned Star[163]
Twinkle, twinkle, Little Arc[163]
Twinkle, twinkle, Boulanger[164]
The Spider and the Fly, by Mary Howitt[164]
Will you Migrate to New Zealand[165]
The Song of the Bank Director[165]
The Irish Spider and the English Fly[166]
Will you Walk into our Death-trap?[166]
Harcourt and Chamberlain[166]
Will you Walk into my Convent?[167]
Will you Walk into my Tunnel?[167]
Pray Come along to Hawarden[167]
Taffy was a Welshman[119]
What are Little Boys Made of[120]
Dickory, dickory dock[120]
Multiplication is Vexation[120]
Please to Remember the 5th November[121]
Privations Sore[121]
Humpty Dumpty[123]
Babye Bunting[123]
I Love Little Pussy[125]
If I had a Donkey[127]
Halliwell-Halliwell, My Pretty Man[167]
When Great Victoria Ruled the Land[167]
I do not like Thee, Dr. Fell[168]
I love Thee not Nell[169]
Jan, je ne t’aime point[169]
Parodies and Poems in Praise of Tobacco.
J. H. Browne’s Imitations of Colley Cibber, A. Phillips, J. Thomson, E. Young, A. Pope, and Jonathan Swift, entitled “A Pipe of Tobacco”[129]
Lord Byron. I Had a Dream[135]
C. S. Calverley’s Ode to Tobacco[139]
Hand me Another Spill[139]
E. Cook. I Love It! I Love It![134]
Barry Cornwall. The Pipe, the Pipe[138]
Abraham Cowley. The lazy Earth doth Steam amain[148]
T. Gray. Elegy on an Old Pipe Box[131]
Mrs. Hemans. The Stately Pipes of England[135]
O. W. Holmes. Hymn to St. Nicotine[137]
Thomas Hood. I Remember, I Remember[134]
Horace. An Ode Against Tobacco[131]
C. Kingsley. Three Antis went Groaning[138]
H. W. Longfellow. Beware![139]
Tobacco Smoke[139]
Song of Firewater[140]
Song of Nicotine[140]
Tell me not in Penny Numbers[140]
Come to Me! oh, my Meerschaum[141]
The Pipe and the Quid[141]
T. Moore. ’Tis a last choice Havana[133]
’Tis the last Weed of Hudson’s[133]
’Tis my last Mild Havana[134]
The Butcher boy down the Road[134]
Oh! the Days are gone[134]
My Mother. My Hookah![136]
A Pinch of Snuff![136]
My Pipe, Love![136]
My True Cigar![137]
Tobacco![137]
The Weed[137]
A Smoke[137]
Mrs. Norton. Smoke not, smoke not[135]
A. C. Swinburne. Another match[141]
Ballade of more Burdens, “This is the cause of every smoker’s ire”[142]
W. Shakespeare. To smoke or not to smoke[132]
R. B. Sheridan. Here’s to the hookah[132]
Walter Scott. Hail to the plant![133]
The weed was rank[133]
Alfred Tennyson. The Cigar Smokers[142]
Nicotina![144]
O, Darling weed![144]
I come from vaunted root[145]
Wordsworth’s Sonnet.
Scorn not the meerschaum[136]
Song from the Mikado[145]
Ballade of the Best Pipe[145]
Ballade of Tobacco[145]
In a Cloud of Smoke. Rondel[146]
With Pipe and Book[146]
On an empty Tobacco Pouch[146]
The Smoker’s Alphabet[146]
First lines of Songs in Praise of Tobacco.
A Poet’s Pipe am I[155]
A Small Boy puffed at a Big Cigar[158]
As the Years vanish, Darling[159]
Borne from a Short Frail Pipe[152]
Certain Fumeur Courtisait une Veuve[149]
Come, Lovely Tube by Friendship Blest[152]
Contre Les Chagrins de La Vie[153]
Contented I sit with my Pipe[153]
Charm of the Solitude I Love[155]
Come! don’t refuse Sweet Nicotina[157]
Critics avaunt, Tobacco is my theme[149]
Doux charme de ma Solitude (and Translation)[152]
Good, good indeed the Herb’s good Weed[148]
For lack o’Tobacco[152]
Hail! Social Pipe—thou Foe to care[152]
Je suis la Pipe d’un Auteur (and Translation)[155]
I flirted first with Cigarettes[150]
I owe to Smoking, more or less[159]
I sing the Song of the Cigarette[159]
J’ ai du bon Tabac[160]
Knows he that never took a Pinch?[160]
Keep me at hand[157]
Let no cold Marble o’er my Body rise[152]
Luscious Leaf of Fragrant Savour[149]
May the Babylonish curse. Charles Lamb[150]
Molière on Tobacco[160]
My Pipe to me, thro’ gloom and glee[156]
Once your Smoothly Polished Face[154]
Pig Tail to Chor (A Letter)[147]
Plains-moi, Philippe, mon ami[154]
Pipe my Darling, Fate is Snarling[155]
Sweet Smoking Pipe[152]
Some Praise taking Snuff[154]
Some sombre evening, when I sit[155]
Some sigh for this and that[157]
Smoke, do you?[158]
The Pungent, Nose Refreshing Weed[160]
The Mighty Thebes[158]
The Warmth of thy Glow[158]
The Sky it was dark[157]
Three Hundred Years ago or soe[157]
Thou Cheering Friend[155]
Tube, I Love thee as my Life[152]
Tell me, Shade of Walter Raleigh[150]
Thrice Happy Isles that stole the World’s Delight[149]
The Indian Weed withered quite[147]
Two Maiden Dames of Sixty-two[148]
The Lazy Earth doth steam amain[148]
Was this small Plant for thee[147]
Weed of the Strange Power[148]
When Happy quite and Cosy grown[150]
When my Pipe burns bright and clear[153]
Why should Life in sorrow be spent[153]
When Nobs come oot to walk aboot[154]
When Life was all a Summer Day[156]
Who Scorns the Pipe?[156]
When Strong Perfumes[160]
Yes, Social Friend, I Love thee well[158]
Political Parodies
Anticipation. R. Tickell, 1778[315]
Kings’ and Queens’ Speeches to the Houses of Parliament[316]
Punch’s Proclamation, 1878[318]
“Ads” of the Future[318]
Limited Liability. Daily News[319]
Political Manifestoes[319]
Saunderson and Waring[319]
The Hawarden Block Wood Company[320]
Mr. W. E. Gladstone’s Last Will[321]
Letters from Political Leaders[321]
Prose Parodies.
Addison (Joseph), Prefatory Paper, by[207]
Acts of Parliament. On Evening Parties, and on Ladies’ Dress[268]
Admiralty Reforms[270]
Ainsworth (W. H.), Novels[258]
Black, William, Parodies on his Novels[259]
Blessington, Countess of, Parodies of[259]
Boyle, Robert, Dean Swift’s Parody of[261]
Braddon, Miss M. E., Dr. Marchmont’s Misery[257]
Selina Sedilia, Bret Harte[259]
Bret Harte, The Luck of Tory Camp[242]
His Finger. Shotover Papers[243]
Brontë, Charlotte. Miss Mix. Bret Harte[259]
Broughton, Rhoda. Gone Wrong. F. C. Burnand[259]
Bürger G. A. Baron Munchausen, & Imitations[260]
Burnaby, Colonel F. The Ride to Khiva, F. C. Burnand[259]
Burnett, Mrs. F. H. The Real Little Lord Fauntleroy[255]
Carlyle, Thomas. Carlyle on Bloomerism[211]
On the Tichborne Trial[211]
On Mr. Gladstone’s Portrait[212]
On the Parliamentary “Closure”[213]
On People of the Present[213]
On the Inventories[213]
On “The Biglow Papers”[214]
Carlyle Redivivus[215]
On the Oxford Commemoration[229]
The Irish Revolution, 1848[229]
Cervantes, Miguel, Parodies of Don Quixote[259]
Chesterfield, Lord. Chesterfield Travestie, 1808[253]
Lady Chesterfield’s Letters to her daughter[253]
Good manners, Punch[253]
Churchill, Lord Randolph. The Standard’s varying estimate of him in 1885, 1888 & 1889[256]
Cœlebs in Search of a Wife, imitated[259]
Collins, Wilkie, The Woman in Tights[242]
No Title, Bret Harte[242]
The Moonstone & Moonshine[259]
Conway, Hugh. Much Darker Days[259]
Hauled Back. 1885[259]
Day, Thomas. The New History of Sandford & Merton, F. C. Burnand[259]
Defoe, Daniel. Imitations of Robinson Crusoe[259]
De Quincey, Thomas. A Recent Confession of an Opium Eater[253]
Dickens, Charles. Chronological List of his principal Works[224]
Parodies from the World, 1879[215]
The Age of Lawn Tennis, Pastime[216]
C. S. Calverley’s Examination Paper on “Pickwick”[217]
Death of Mr. Pickwick[218]
The Battle Won by the Wind[218]
The Haunted Man. Bret Harte[219]
Dombey & Sons, Finished[221]
Hard Times, refinished. R. B. Brough[223]
The Political Mrs. Gummidge. Punch[224]
The Mudfog Association Papers[228]
Sam Weller’s Adventures[228]
List of Parodies & Imitations of Dickens’s Works[225]
Plays founded upon Dickens’s Novels,[226], [259]
Disraeli, Benjamin (Lord Beaconsfield), Lothaw
Bret Harte[238]
Codlingsby, W. M. Thackeray[239]
Nihilism in Russia. The World[239]
De Tankard. Puppet Show[240]
Tancredi. Cuthbert Bede[241]
Ben D’ymion. H. F. Lester[241]
The Age of Lawn Tennis[241]
A Key to Endymion[242]
A Plagiarism, by B. Disraeli[242]
A List of Minor Parodies[259]
Dumas, Alexander. The Ninety-nine Guardsmen[250]
Fielding, Henry. Imitations of Tom Jones[259]
Forbes, Archibald. His egotistical style[254]
Gore, Mrs. Mammon’s Marriage[259]
Haggard, H. Rider, He, 1887[257]
“She” dramatised[257]
She-that-ought-not-to-be-Played[257]
Hee-Hee. Punch[257]
Me, a Companion to She[257]
King Solomon’s Wives[257]
Hugo, Victor. Anticipations of the Derby, 1869[244]
One and Three. Punch[247]
Thirty-one. C. H. Waring[248]
Fantine. Bret Harte[248]
Grinplaine. Walter Parke[248]
Quel bonheur Marie?[249]
The House that Victor built[249]
The Spoiler of the Sea[249]
The Cat[249]
A Manifesto by Victor Hugo[250]
Hume, Fergus W. Mystery of a Wheelbarrow[259]
James, G. P. R. Parodies of[260]
Dr. Johnson’s Ghost on “Drury Lane Theatre”[208]
On Book binders, after “Rasselas”[209]
Anonymous Journalism[209]
Lexiphanes[209]
Dinarbas[209]
Labouchere, Henry, and Edmund Yates[255]
Lamb, Charles. Our New Actors. The World[233]
Lever, Charles, Parodies of[260]
Lytton, Lord. Parodies of his Plays[251]
The Diamond Death. Puppet Show[251]
The Dweller of the Threshold. Bret Harte[252]
On a Toasted Muffin. Cuthbert Bede[253]
The Wrongful Heir. Walter Parke[260]
Macaulay, T. B. The Quarterly Reviewer parodies him[234]
A Page by Macaulay[234]
A Bit of Whig his-Tory[235]
The next Armada[235]
The Age of Lawn-Tennis[236]
The Story of Johnnie Armstrong[236]
Marryat, Captain. Mr. Midshipman Breezy. Bret Harte[243]
The Flying Dutchman. W. E. Aytoun[232]
Menagérie, The. Burlesque Lecture by C. Collette[269]
Menu. Ministerial Whitebait Dinner, 1878[261]
Menu, by Miss Louisa Alcorn[262]
Menu. Capital Club Dinner, 1885[262]
Lady Morgan’s Wild Irish Girl[254]
Munchausen, Baron. Ascribed to G. A. Burger[260]
Imitations of[260]
Office Rules[268]
On Farming[269]
“Ouida.” Moll Marine. Light Green[231]
The Cambridgeshire Stakes[231]
Strapmore. F. C. Burnand[232]
Bluebottles. Judy[232]
Blue-blooded Bertie. Walter Parke[260]
Pepys, Samuel. Imitations of his Diary[260]
Prescription for feelin’ bad[262]
Programmes. Lords Mayor’s Show, 1884[262]
How they’ll open the Inventories[263]
Lord Mayor’s Show, 1885[264]
Lord Mayor’s Show, 1886[264]
Play Bill by Rev. Rowland Hill[265]
Prospectuses. Imperial Homeless Hotel Company[266]
The Glenmutchkin Railway[266]
The Gott-up Hotel Company[266]
Horse Shoe Hotel Prospectus[266]
Quill Toothpick Attachment Company[267]
Reade, Charles. A Parody by F. C. Burnand[260]
Regulations in the U.S. Navy[269]
Reid, Captain Mayne. The Pale Faced Warriors[244]
The Skull Hunters. Walter Parke[244]
Richardson, Samuel. Joseph Andrews[257]
Apology for Shamela Andrews[257]
The History of Clorana, 1737[257]
John Ruskin. “That Little Brown-red Butterfly”[229]
Mark Twain’s Parody[230]
On all Fours Clavigera. Punch[230]
On Toothpicks. Shotover Papers[230]
Pre-Raffaelitism. Rev. E. Young, 1857[231]
Letter to Chesterfield[258]
Letter lo the Richmond Baptists[258]
On Usury, a Biblical Parody[312]
Scott, Sir Walter. Parodies of his Novels[260]
Sketchley, Arthur. Mrs. Brown at Cambridge[237]
Smart, Hawley. What’s the Odds? F. C. Burnand[260]
Smith, Horace. Whitehall, 1827[260]
Soyer, Alexis. Camp Cookery[254]
The Art of Cookery[254]
Military Cookery Book. Punch[254]
Stephenson R. L., Parodies of[260]
Sterne (Laurence). A Sentimental Journey[209]
Affecting Appeal[210]
The Citizen[211]
Fragments in the manner of L. Sterne, and other Imitations[211]
Sue Eugene. Sir Brown. Cuthbert Bede[250]
Parodie du Juif Errant, and an English Translation[250]
Swift, Jonathan. Parodies and Imitations[261]
Thackeray, W. M. Parodies of his Novels[261]
Trollope, Anthony. Parodies of his Novels[261]
Walton, Izaak. The Complete (ly) done Angler[251]
The Incompleat Angler[251]
Walton’s Angler Imitated[251]
Yates, Edmund. “Ba! Ba! Black Sheep”[261]
Religious Parodies.
No Parodies introduced which have a tendency to ridicule Religion[288]
The Protestants Ave Mary, 1689[288]
A Parodie by George Herbert, 1633[289]
Luther’s Parody of the Psalms[289]
William Hone’s Three Trials[289]
John Wilkes’s Catechism[289]
The Political Litany[291]
The Sinecurist’s Creed[293]
Parodies of the Litany[294]
The Book Lover’s Litany[297]
Parodies of the Creed of St. Athanasius[298]
England’s Te Deum to George III[301]
Parodies of the Catechism[302]
Imitations of the Lord’s Prayer[305]
Parodies of the X Commandments[305]
Richard Carlile’s Parodies[307]
Administration of Loaves and Fishes[307]
Chronicles of the Kings of England[309]
Imitations of Biblical Phraseology[309]
Blackwood’s Chaldee Manuscript[310]
The Bible of the Future[310]
The Origin of Species. C. Neaves[311]
The Positivists. Mortimer Collins[311]
Bibliography of Scriptural Parodies[312]
A Dean and a Prebendary[314]
Parodies of Hymns[314]
God Save the Queen[315]
Alexander Pope.
Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day[176]
Ode to Toast-Master Toole. Punch, 1843[177]
Ode to Lessee Bunn, of Drury Lane[177]
Bonnell Thornton’s Burlesque Ode[178]
Mock Heroic Poems, Parodies or Imitations of the Dunciad and the Rape of the Lock[179]
The Essay on Man.
The Essay on Woman[182]
Eloisa’s Epistle to Abelard.
Eloisa en Déshabille[182]
Elegy in an Empty Assembly Room[183]
Les Amours d’Abélard et d’Eloise[183]
The Rape of the Lock.
The Rape of the Smock[182]
The Rape of the Bucket[183]
The Rape of the Cake[185]
Lo! The Poor Indian, whose Untutor’d Mind[183]
Lo! the poor Toper[183]
Lo! the lean Indian[183]
The Universal Prayer[183]
Achilles Speech, a Parody of[184]
As when the Moon.
As when an Alderman[184]
Pope’s Prologue to Addison’s “Cato,” Parody of[185]
Pope’s Imitations of the early Poets[186]
Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
The Blooming Damozel[26]
Sister Helen.
Apple, and Orange, and Nectarine[70]
O Mother Carey, Mother![70]
Mother Eve. Mabel Peacock[70]
O, Weary Mother, Drive the Cows to Roost[71]
A Twilight Fantasy[71]
O, for a Brandy and Soda[71]
Butter, and Eggs, and a Pound of Cheese. C. S. Calverley[71]
Paper, and Pens, and a Bottle of Ink[72]
Agriculture’s Latest Rôle. Punch[72]
O, the Dinner was Fine to see. Truth[72]
I would I were a Cigarette[73]
Ah Night! Blind Germ of Days to be[73]
A Goodly Balance is Fair to see[73]
O, London Town[74]
Cimabuella. Bayard Taylor[74]
A Legend of Camelot. Punch[75]
The Leaf
Imitazione[75]
De la tige détachée[75]
Thou Poor Leaf. Lord Macaulay[75]
Remember, by Miss Christina Rossetti[76]
Remember it. Judy[76]
Ding Dong. The Light Green[76]
George R. Sims.
Ostler Joe. (By Permission)[35]
Teamster Jim. R. J. Burdette[37]
“Ostler Joe” and Mrs. J. B. Potter[37]
Hustler Jim[37]
Billy’s Rose, (By Permission.)[38]
Billy’s Nose. F. Rawkins[39]
The Lifeboat.
The Tricycle. Cassell’s Journal[39]
The Terror of Tadger’s Rents[40]
Another “Bagonet” Ballad[40]
The Ballad Monger[43]
Little Flo’. Truth[43]
The Coster’s Plea[44]
The Lights of London Town[42]
Those Wights of London Town[42]
The Lights o’ Ascot Heath[42]
Sally[44]
Christmas Day in the Beer House[45]
A Coster’s Conversion[45]
Slang, Cant, and Flash Songs.
The House Breaker’s Song[271]
Nix my Dolly, Pals, Fake away[271]
Dear Bill, this Stone Jug[271]
The Chick-a-Leary Cove[272]
The Thieves’ Chaunt[272]
Dartmoor is a tidy place[272]
Joe quickly his sand had Sold[272]
Millbank for thick shins[272]
The Beggar’s Curse (1609)[273]
Clear out—Look sharp[273]
Frisky Moll’s Song[273]
Ye Morts and ye Dells[274]
Ode to the King of the Mendicants[274]
Oath of the Canting Crew[274]
Life and Death of the Darkman’s Budge[274]
The Game of High Toby[275]
The Double Cross[275]
Flash Anecdote, and Translation[275]
The Leary Man[276]
Song of the Young Prig[276]
Death of Socrates[277]
’Arry at a Political Picnic[277]
Life in Gaol. The Chequers[279]
The Twenty Craftsmen[279]
Retoure my Dear Dell[280]
The Pickpockets’ Chaunt[280]
A Cant Handbill[281]
W. H. Ainsworth on Slang and Cant[281]
The Printer’s Epitaph[282]
Books of Reference on Slang and Cant[282]
Continental Books on “Argot,” or Slang[285]
American and Colonial Slang[285]
Algernon Charles Swinburne.
Before the Beginning of Years[1]
American Parody[1]
Before the Beginning of Post[1]
Now in the Railway Years[2]
For Winter’s Rains and Ruins are Over[2]
For Mayfair’s Balls and Ballets are over[2]
Dolores and Poems and Ballads[2]
When Waters are Rent with Commotion[2]
Pain and Travel. Fun[5]
Our Lady Champagne. Judy, [6], [26]
Mosquitos Again. J. B. Stephens[6]
Brandy and Soda. H. Howard[7]
Our M.D. of Spain. Punch[7]
Octopus. The Light Green[8]
Procuratores. Shotover Papers[8]
Oh, Vanished Benevolent Bobby[8]
Oh, Nymph with the Nicest of Noses[9]
O Blood-bitten Lip all Aflame[16]
Stylites. Walter Parke[18]
Thou Magpie and Stump[22]
The Days of the Dunces are Over[31]
All pale from the past we draw nigh thee[33]
“Disgust,” a Parody of “Despair”[22]
O Season supposed of all Free Flowers[22]
I trow, Wild Friends. S. K. Cowan[23]
Ah! Love, if Love lie still. J. M. Lowry[23]
Also Thine Eyes were Mild[23]
The God and the Damosel, 1879. The World[23]
Soft is the Smell of it[24]
I See the Sad Sorrow[24]
A. C. Swinburne and Victor Hugo[25]
The Pigmy and Portative Horner[26]
I Sing of the Months[27]
I am the Lady of Shalott[27]
Strophes from a Song after Moonrise[28]
Is not this the First Lord of Your Choice?[31]
The Ballad of Burdens[3]
A Burden of Foul Weathers[3]
The Burden of Strange Seasons[4]
The Burden of Long Fielding[4]
The Burden of Hard Hitting[5]
The Burden of Old Women[5]
How Jack Harris became Æsthetic[17]
The Lay of Macaroni. Bayard Taylor[17]
To Ada I. Menken. The Tomahawk[18]
Parody of A. C. S. by Mortimer Collins[19]
“O Cool in the Summer is Salad.”[19]
Between the Gate Post and the Gate[21]
A Song after Sunset[21]
Oh, April Showers[21]
“The Heptalogia.” Nephelidia[21]
Ballad of Dreamland.
I hid my Head on a Rug from Moses[17]
The Sorest stress of the Season’s over[18]
She hid herself in the Soirée Kettle[16]
A Century of Roundels[25]
Far-fetched and dear bought[25]
What Gain were mine[25]
Magician of Song and of Sound[25]
A Trio of Roundels[26]
March. An Ode[26]
Another Ode to March[27]
The Commomweal[29]
The Question[29]
The Answer. The Daily News[29]
The “Question” answered. Truth[29]
A Match.
“If Love were what the Rose is”[9]
If You were Queen of Bloaters[9]
If Life were never Bitter. M. Collins[10]
If you were an Elector. E. Hamilton[10]
If you were what your Nose is[10]
If I were Big Nat Langham. Punch[11]
I am your Dr. Jekyll[11]
If it be but a Dream or a Vision[16]
If I were Anglo-Saxon. Punch[20]
If Love were dhudeen olden[141]
The Interpreters[11]
Parodies from The Weekly Dispatch[12]
Imparadised by my Environment[13]
Parody from The Family Herald[13]
Home, Sweet Home, à la Swinburne[13]
Short Space shall be Hereafter[14]
Vaccine after Faustine[14]
A Song after Sunset. Judy[15]
The Mad, Mad Muse. R. J. Burdette[15]
I have made me an End of the Moods[16]
Clear the Way![30]
Rail Away! Punch[30]
A Word for the Navy[30]
A Word for the Poet[30]
The Palace of Bric-à-Brac[32]
Baby, see the flowers![32]
England, what of the fight?[32]
Oh, thy swift, subtle, slanting, services[32]
Mr. Swinburne’s prose writings, [32], [205]
The Session of the Poets. R. Buchanan[33]
Paddy Blake on Swinburne[34]
An Utter Passion uttered Utterly. Kottabos[81]
Lines on a Dead Dog. College Rhymes[204]
The Song of Sir Palamede. H. G. Cone “With flow exhaustless of alliterate words.”[205]
Martin Farquhar Tupper.
Cuthbert Bede’s Parody[89]
The Queen of Oude[89]
Beer, that hath entered my head[90]
Philosophy of Sausages[90]
The Fall of Tupper[90]
Going to the Wash[90]
Tupper in the Clouds. Andrew Lang[90]
The Welcome to the Princess Alexandra[168]
Oscar Wilde.
Biographical Memoranda[78]
Sala on “Requiescat”[78]
A Villanelle, after Oscar Wilde[66]
There’s Oscar Wylde, that Gifted Chylde[79]
What a Shame and what a Pity[79]
Narcissus in Camden. The Century[79]
Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman[79]
Oscar Interviewed. Punch[80]
Sainte Margérie. An Imitation[81]
Oh, fainting of Lilies with broken stem[81]
Meseem’d that Love. Kottabos[81]
Consummate Dish! full many an ancient Crack[81]
Impressions, by Oscuro Wildegoose[81]
A List of Parodies on O. W.[82]
The Public House[82]
Five-and-Seventy Maidens, free[82]
A Barrel of Beer and a Glass of Gin hot[83]
Sing hey! Potatoes and Paint. H. C. Waring[83]
Arnold, Matthew. The Forsaken Merman[200]
The Saturday Review on Arnold’s poems[200]
Parody by W. H. Mallock[200]
Christmas Thoughts. The World[201]
Bloomfield, Robert. The Bishop’s wish. Punch[192]
The Pot Boy. C. Thirlwall[192]
Butler, Samuel. Parodies and Imitations of Hudibras[259]
Calverley, C. S. On the River[84]
Collins, Mortimer. The Birds[19]
Oh, Summer said to Winter[206]
Lady, very fair are you[206]
Careless Rhymer, it is True[206]
Comic History of England. In verse[207]
Cornwall, Barry. The Omnibus[322]
Country Quarter Session. Three or Four Parsons[203]
Two or three facts[203]
Two or three “dears”[203]
Crabbe, Rev. G. The Theatre. Rejected Addresses[94]
Cross Readings[287]
Cumulative Parodies[270]
Darwin, Dr. Erasmus. Now stood Eliza[198]
Parody on above from Diogenes[199]
The Loves of the Plants. The Loves of the Triangles[199]
The Loves of the Lowlier Plants[200]
Natural Selection. Founded on Darwin[200]
Miss, I’ m a Pensive Protoplasm. S. Brooks[200]
Parody Epitaph on Darwin[200]
Æsthetic School, The[69]
Fitzgerald, W. T. Britons to Arms![95]
Loyal Effusion. Rejected Addresses[96]
Gay’s “Beggar’s Opera. Parodies of songs in[198]
George Barnwell. Parody, Rejected Addresses[96]
“Sam,” by Shirley Brooks[97]
Heber, Dr. Reginald. From Greenland’s icy Mountains[98]
From Cashmere’s icy Mountains[98]
Address to Women Missionaries[98]
From Chatham’s pleasant Mountains[99]
Horaces’s Odes.
Buttons you booby. Shirley Brooks[197]
On the Commencement of Term[197]
Thackeray’s Versions[198]
November, 1858[198]
Railway Horace[198]
Ingelow, Miss Jean. The Apple-Woman’s Song[195]
Calverley’s Parodies of above[196]
Lovers, and a Reflection[196]
The Shrimp Gatherers. Bayard Taylor[196]
The Letter L. Daily News[197]
I am Colonel North of the Horse Marines,
Financial News[203]
Johnson, Dr. Samuel. Ode to a Girl in the Temple, 1777[188]
Parody of Dr. Johnson’s “Prologue” for Drury Lane in 1847[188]
Last Arrival, The. G. W. Cable[270]
Leigh, Henry S. The Twins[100]
In the Strand. Judy[100]
Lorne, Marquis of. Guido and Lita Parodied[202]
Lost Chord, The. The Lost Chord. G. R. Sims[45]
The Lost Shot. Corporal[45]
The Legislative Organ[128]
Lyttelton’s Ode, & a Parody by Tobias Smollett[187]
Macaronic Poems. The Death of the Sea Serpent[327]
Mallet, David. William and Margaret[91]
French and Latin Versions[92]
Dr. Johnson’s Ghost[92]
Giles Scroggin’s Ghost[93]
A Polished Version of the same[93]
Mock Heroic Poems, and Imitations of the Dunciad[179]
Morris, Lewis. The Imperial Institute Ode[99]
The Ode as it ought to have been. Truth[99]
Poet and Poetaster. The Star[100]
Morris, William. The Volsung Tale[26]
Behold the Works of W. Morris[76]
In the Cushioned Abbey Pew[76]
All Sides of the River. Once a Week[77]
The Monthly Parodies, after Morris’s “Earthly Paradise.” Gleeson White[77]
Nutshell Novels[202]
Oldest Classical Burlesque Battle of the Frogs and Mice[328]
Patmore, Coventry. The Baby in the House. S. Brooks[194]
The Spoons. Puppet Show Album[195]
The Person of the House. Heptalogia[229]
Poetical Criticism from the Athenæum[229]
Pygmalion; or, the Statue Fair. Hornet[326]
Rowe, Nicholas. Colin’s Complaint[186]
Corydon Querens[186]
A Parody by George Canning[187]
Bow Bells. Henry S. Leigh[187]
Scott, Clement W. The Women of Mumble’s Head. The Wreck of the steamship “Puffin”[46]
A Tale of the 10th Hussars, and a Parody on it[46]
The Garden of Sleep[46]
Scott, Sir Walter. Paddy Dunbar. (Young Lochinvar)[161]
O’Shaughnessy. Arthur W. E.
Blue Moonshine. F. G. Stokes[83]
Frangipanni. Judy[83]
On the River[84]
Spenser, Edmund. List of works written in the Spenserian stanza. J. Bouchier[189]
The Alley. Alexander Pope[189]
The Holidayer. Funny Folks[189]
Sterry J. Ashby. Georgy[84]
The Muse in Manacles[64]
Swift, Jonathan. The State Coach[190]
The Happy Life of a Country Parson. A. Pope[191]
The Logicians Refuted. O. Goldsmith[191]
A New Simile. O. Goldsmith[191]
Tennyson, Alfred. King Arthur, growing very tired[20]
The Cigar-Smokers[142]
Nicotina. (Oriana)[144]
The Weed. (The Brook)[145]
“Vernon Avick.” Song on Sir W. Vernon Harcourt[34]
Watts, Dr. How Doth the Nasty Dirty Man[138]
’Twas the Voice of the Doctor[138]
White, Henry Kirke. It is not that my Lot is low[188]
It is not that my “Place” was low[188]
Wilson’s Isle of Palms, imitated by James Brown[192]

Transcriber’s Note:

This book was written in a period when many words had not become standardized in their spelling. Words may have multiple spelling variations, inconsistent hyphenation, or non-standard use of apostrophes. These have been left unchanged unless indicated below.

Obvious printing errors, such as backwards, upside down, unprinted or partially printed letters, were corrected. Final stops missing at the end of sentences and abbreviations were added. Duplicate letters at line endings or page breaks were removed. Numbers 11. and 12. were added to [Les Commandements de la Presse].

Unprinted diacriticals were added to words in languages other than English. The use of quotation marks is not standard, and generally was not changed unless needed for clarity. Extraneous punctuation was deleted.

Footnotes were renumbered sequentially and were moved to the end of the book. There are two anchors for Footnote [ [47]. Anchors for [ [286] and [ [322] were unprinted; anchors were added where they may belong.

The [St. James’s Street ballad] and its parody are presented in sequence, not side by side.

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