“Some of the tunes—there’s no act of parliament about tunes, you know, sir—was stunners on the fiddle; as if a thousand bricks was falling out of a cart at once. I think ‘The Pope and Cardinal Wiseman,’ one of the first of the songs, did as well as any. This werse was greatly admired:—
‘Now Lord John Russell did so bright,
to the Bishop of Durham a letter write
Saying while I’ve a hand I’ll fight,
The pope and cardinal wiseman,
Lord John’s ancestor as I tell,
Lord William Russell then known well
His true religion would not sell,
A martyr he in glory fell,
And now Lord John so bold and free,