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;