From The Poetical Note Book and Epigrammatic Museum;
by George Wentworth, London, 1824.
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The following parody was written by Robert Surtees, Esq., M.A. F.S.A., author of a history of the County Palatine of Durham:—
I do remember a strange man, a herald—
And hereabouts he dwells—whom late I noted
In parti-colour’d coat like a fool’s jacket,
Or morrice-dancer’s dress—musty his looks,
Like to a piece of ancient shrivell’d parchment,
Or an old pair of leather brogues twice turn’d;
And round the dusky room he did inhabit,