For I'm to be Griffin at Bay, Bumble, I'm to be Griffin at Bay!
Go, summons all my aldermen, and bid them take their fill,
From terror free let them with me all gaily feast and swill;
Reform need have no fears for them, so bid them all be gay,
For I'm to be Griffin at Bay, Bumble, I'm to be Griffin at Bay!
Four other parodies, which had been sent in for competition, were also printed:—
THE EVE OF THE GENERAL ELECTION.
We must wake and get up early, get up early, brother Grimes,
For to-morrow'll be the greatest day of all the modern times;