A Century of Parody and Imitation

by Unknown

IX.

Let us cheer our great Commoner, but for whose aid

We all should have gone with short commons to bed;

And since he has saved all the fat from the fire,

I move that the house be call'd Whitbread's Entire.

Tol de rol, &c.

'"A New Halfpenny Ballad," by a Pic-Nic Poet, is a good imitation of what was not worth imitating—that tremendous mixture of vulgarity, nonsense, impudence, and miserable puns, which, under the name of humorous songs, rouses our polite audiences to a far higher pitch of rapture than Garrick or Siddons ever was able to inspire.'—Edinburgh Review.

ARCHITECTURAL ATOMS.

TRANSLATED BY DR. B.[49]

Lege, Dick, Lege!—Joseph Andrews.