TO THE CABINET.
(Suggested by a recent doctoring of "Hansard.")
The judgment of the People's "Yea" or "Nay"
Wherefore should virtuous men like you shun?
You are—or so you confidently say—
Prepared for dissolution.
Then snatch a hint from Haldane's little fake,
Who glanced with eye alert and beady at
His speech in proof, and, for appearance' sake,
Added the word "immediate."
"The very clever may bethink themselves of Milton's 'subject of all verse.'"—Reynolds' Newspaper.
The mere well-informed will bethink themselves of Browne.