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O St. Stephen’s, false and fickle! O St. Stephen’s, mine no more!
O the weary, dreary benches! O the aching, quaking floor!
Is it proper not to scold thee? having known me—to decline
On this spurious Gentile Joseph, in the screw and Caucus line?
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These lines, descriptive of the career of Lord Beaconsfield, are extracted from a clever parody in The Banquet. (W. Blackwood and Sons.) 1885.
“The Grinder,” an examination parody of “Locksley Hall,” appeared in Number 1 of The Aberdeen High School Magazine, March, 1885.
In a work entitled “Travels by Umbra,” published in Edinburgh in 1865, there was also a parody of “Locksley Hall” consisting of 34 lines, entitled Digwell’s Lament.