CORRESPONDENCE EXTRAORDINARY.
Wrote Paget to Pollen,
With face bright as brass,
“T’other day in the Town Hall
You mention’d an ass:
“Now, for family reasons,
I’d like much to know,
If on me you intended
That name to bestow?”
“My lord,” says Jack Pollen,
“Believe me, (’tis true,)
I’d be sorry to slander
A donkey or you.”
“Being grateful,” says Paget,
“I’d ask you to lunch;
But just, Sir John, tell me.
Did you call me PUNCH?”
“In wit, PUNCH is equalled,”
Says Pollen, “by few;
In naming him, therefore,
I couldn’t mean you,”
“Thanks! thanks! To bear malice,”
Save Paget, “I’m loath;
Two answers I’ve got, and I’m
Charm’d with them both.”