Ounly crass Lord Essex would not give him lave.
There was Baron Alten himself exalting,
And Prince Von Schwartzenburg, and many more;
Och! I’d be bother’d, and entirely smother’d,
To tell the half of ’em was to the fore;
With the swate Peeresses, in their crowns and dresses,
And Aldermanesses, and the Boord of Works;
But Mehemet Ali said, quite gintalely,
“I’d be proud to see the likes among the Turks!”
Then the Queen—Heaven bless her!—och! they did dress her