The Choice Humorous Works, Ludicrous Adventures, Bons Mots, Puns, and Hoaxes of Theodore Hook

by Theodore Edward Hook

'Twas in the pure day

Of Lansdowne and Grey,

And the rest of the talented men—men!

And the rest of the talented men!

I had been a lawyer, but then, but then,

I had been a lawyer, but then

I hated the fag

Of the wig and the bag,

And envied the Parliament men—men,

And envied the Parliament men.