Crying, “God save Victoria, our Royal Queen!”

Och! if myself should live to be a hundred,

Sure it’s the proudest day that I’ll have seen!

And now, I’ve ended, what I pretended,

This narration splendid in swate poe-thry,

Ye dear bewitcher, just hand the pitcher;

Faith, it’s mesilf that’s getting mighty dhry.

Richard Harris Barham.

FROM “THE DEVIL’S DRIVE.”