The following are the most interesting, the one signed Orchis, (by Mr. T. B. Doveton,) being, on the whole, a closer parody than any of the others:—
Dinner-parties.
——Dinner is a stage
With knives and forks the company are players;
Courses have exits and swift entrances;
And each guest, in his time, plays many parts,
His acts being seven epochs. At first the soup
Steaming and seething in the grand tureen,
Then comes the whiting tasty, or the salmon
With shining silver scales, sleeping serene