“With genial joy to warm the soul,
“Bright Helen mix’d a mirth-inspiring bowl.”
Odyssey.
To promote hilarity, to keep up the good humour of life, to help digestion by the salutary exercise of the risible faculty, the compositions that follow were chiefly written;—the cynic, the sanctified hypocrite, and the misanthrope, will eagerly condemn many of them, but the man of the world, who thinks liberally, and acts up to his feelings, the bon vivant, the friend of the fair sex, the bottle and song, will, it is hoped and presumed, place them under their private care and protection.
PAT-RIOT,
A REVOLUTIONARY SONG.
I.
Och! my name is Pat Riot,
And I’m never easy;
For when all is quiet,