Of all who opposed him, a reg’lar first-rater,
Full of envy and malice, a real aggravator,
Who’d have charmed Doctor Johnson, that learn’d commentator,
Had he chanced but to live a few centuries later.
The Herald he stood in the castle hall,
Seneschal, warder, and page, were there;
And he read his citation fair and free,
In a baritone voice that went up to G,
As loudly as he could bawl.
And he cleared his throat, and he pushed back his hair