HAMLET.

Benjamin Cæsar Redivivus.
(On the happy recovery of Lord Beaconsfield from an attack of gout.)

Ben Dizzy patch’d and mended for to-day,

Not like old Cæsar, dead and turned to clay,

Will still go on in his corrupting play,

Nor “stop a hole to keep the wind away.”

Fiz, January 18, 1879.

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The Spaniard’s Soliloquy.

To fight or not to fight, that is the question,