Some excellent parodists have succeeded very well in dissembling their love.
[P. 266.] The Laureates Bust at Trinity. Parody of part of Guinevere in the Idylls of the King:
So the stately Queen abode
For many a week, unknown, among the nuns....
'Late, late, so late! and dark the night and chill!
Late, late, so late! but we can enter still.
Too late, too late! ye cannot enter now.'
The parody is from Punch, November 12, 1859.
[P. 268.] Unfortunate Miss Bailey. Tennyson's The Lord of Burleigh.
In her ear he whispers gaily,