Before the new Lord Mayor to Westminster,

Where many worthies are awaiting us;

Thence the brave Show must citywards return

To be dissolved at the famed Guildhall,

And I at length in limbo shall repose—

Limbo of Aldermen who've passed the chair."

So said he; and the gallant coach-and-four

Moved off, like some prodigious equipage

That seems quite natural in pantomime,

But strange in real life. Sir Soulsby stood