My saucepans, they have been a pretty while in 'em!
Enough to stew them, if it comes to that,
To flesh and bones, and perfect rags; but drat
Those Anti-biling Pills! there is no bile in 'em!"
LORD MACAULAY.
(1800-1859.)
[LXII.] THE COUNTRY CLERGYMAN'S TRIP TO CAMBRIDGE.
This is one of the numerous jeux d'esprit in which Macaulay, in his earlier years, indulged at election times. It was written in 1827.
As I sate down to breakfast in state,