Is a grace to the head,
So long will we wear
The locks of the dead.
The Figaro, May 5, 1875.
(At that date ladies were wearing very large chignons).
On the occasion of an inebriated "swell" being expelled from the Prince of Wales's Theatre, by P. C. 22 Z.:—
Take him up tendahly,
Lift him with caah;
Clothes are made slendahly