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,