The Baboon as a Counsellor: Alderman Glutton:
A Lamb, Miss in her teens, with her aunt, an old mutton.
It was easy to see, as this couple past by,
The Wolf, very cunningly, cast a sheep’s eye.”
A guest of unusual interest is the “Great Hog in Armour” who stalks, in Mulready’s illustration, like the ghost in Hamlet, under a full moon; and there is a Bear in the “character” of Caliban,
“... loaded with wood,
His bones full of aches, from Prospero’s rod.”
Those were great naval days; the English sailor is represented by a Mastiff:
“Britannia receiv’d him with mark’d condescension
And paid him all night, most distinguish’d attention.”