There’s never a goddess a hunting to-day,” &c.

(see Appendix to Westminster Drollery, p. liv.) Our readers may thus additionally enjoy a full-flavoured bumper of the “Antidote against Melancholy.”

J. W. E.

August, 1875.


To the Reader.

There’s no Purge ’gainst Melancholly,

But with Bacchus to be jolly:

All else are but Dreggs of Folly.