Of black velvet and feathers, a grand hearse, and eight
Magnificent horses, the orders await
Of a spruce undertaker,
Who’s come from Long Acre,
To furnish a coffin, and do the polite
To the corpse of Sir Reginald Allinghame, Knight.
The lamented deceased whose funeral arrangement
I’ve just been describing, resembled that strange gent
Who ventured to falsely imprison a great man,
Viz. the Ottoman captor of noble Lord Bateman;