But the painfullest of all would be to know that we're turned out.
The Evening News, February 18, 1884.
THE NEW LORD MAYOR.
(A long way after Tennyson).
YOU must mind and call me early, call me early, JOHN, d'ye hear.
To-morrow'll be the nobbiest day of all this blessed year:
Of all this wonderful year, JOHN, the scrumptiousest I declare,
For I'm to be made Lord Mayor, JOHN! I'm to be made Lord Mayor!
There's many an Aldermanic Swell, but none so great as me;