Sway’d by each Lump of cash, and swaying to each Lump
Like some fat Pluralist in clover dwelling
Between two Sums, and drawing down from both
The light and genial warmth of double pay.
Modern Society, August 1, 1885.
There was a Parody competition on these lines in The Weekly Dispatch, August 9, 1885, and the following Parodies were printed. The first, which gained the prize of Two Guineas was written by Mr. J. Phelan, of 4, Albion Terrace, Wisbech.
Two tones of love make woe of married life,
Which, at its best, hath frets and jars enough
For passive comfort—one, the voice of dole