Burlesque Plays and Poems

by Unknown

And renters cluck'd around thee in a brood.

King thou wert made of Drury and of Kean!

Of many a lady and of many a Quean!

With Poole and Larpent was thy reign begun—

But now thou turnest from the Dead and Dun,

Hook's in thine eye, to write thy plays, no doubt,

And Colman lives to cut the damnlet's out!

Oh, worthy of the house! the King's commission!

Isn't thy condition "a most bless'd condition?"

Thou reignest over Winston, Kean, and all