Or prefer you stale instead?

Reply, reply, reply.

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Lines spoken by F. Robson as Prince Richcraft in J. R. Planché’s extravaganza, “The Discreet Princess,” produced at the Olympic Theatre, December 26, 1855:—

Ha! I remember a low sort of shop

Where they sold peppermint and lollipop,

And lozenges in boxes by the score

With the inscription o’er them “cough no more.”

I gazed upon the things red—green—and blue,

And others of a still more sickly hue;