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

by Theodore Edward Hook

Silly Billy, God bless him! subscribed all his sense;

Of loyalty Grey made a gallant expense;

The Gospels, Lord Grosvenor flung down in a boast;

And Erskine gave nobly—himself, as a toast;

For the Black Wig and her Character white.

Bald Bedford, his still balder eloquence gave;

And Blessington thought that his coup-d'œil might save

The Black Wig and her Character white.

Big Nugent bestow'd all his graces upon her,

Ned Ellice his credit, and Guildford his honour;