“Under a star y-pointing pyramid.”

[Page 24.] Read Charles Baudelure, not Beaudelaire.

[Page 219]. Wine, a Poem. The Copy of this old poem in the Editor’s possession, was published anonymously in 1702. It has been ascribed to John Gay, who was born in 1688, the poem is certainly a remarkable production for a youth of twenty-one.

INDEX.

The authors of the original poems are arranged in alphabetical order; the titles of the original poems are printed in small capitals, followed by the Parodies, the authors of which are named wherever possible.

Albert Grant, M.P. and Leicester Square[2]
Home, Sweet Home[3]
Trial by Jury, in 1884, a Burlesque Law Report, from the Pall Mall Gazette[20]
The Art of Parody, an Article reprinted from The Saturday Review of February 14th, 1885[103]
Tracy Turnerelli and the Golden Wreath[237] [238]
NATIONAL ANTHEM OF THE UNITED STATES.—
Orpheus C. Kerr’s report of the Prize Competitionfor a National Hymn, with copies of the rejectedcompositions ascribed to Longfellow, Everett,Whittier, Wendell Holmes, Emerson, CullenBryant, Morris, Willis, Aldwick, and Stoddart[22]
——:o:——
Matthew Arnold.
Sonnet to George Cruikshank[236]
World—Prize Parody, by V. Amcotts[237]
Do.   do.  by Goymour Cuthbert[237]
Do.   Competition Parody by Nocturne[237]
Do.   do.   do.,  by Caraway[237]
The subject selected was “Mr. Charles Warner in Drink,” August 20, 1879.
The Forsaken Merman[237]
The World—Prize Parody, by Mrs. Winsloe[238]
Do.   do.   by Miss M. C. Kilburn[238]
The subject selected was “Mr. Tracy Turnerelli in the Provinces, with the Golden Wreath.” September 24, 1879.
The Wreath, from The World, July, 1879[238]
——:o:——
John Dryden’s Epigram on Milton.
“Three Poets, in Three Distant Ages Born”[233]
Epigram on Orator Henley, Rock, and Dr. John Hill[233]
  ”  on Chatterton, Ireland, Lauder, and Macpherson[233]
  ”  by D. O’Connell on Three Colonels[233]
  ”  on Three Pens, advertisement[234]
  ”  on Hemans, Hallam, and Hogg[234]
Parody Competition in Truth, March 27, 1884—
Epigrams on Brandy and Soda[234]
  ”  on Grog and Baccy[234]
  ”  on Generals Wolseley, Roberts, and Graham[234]
  ”  on Truth[234]
  ”  on Beau Nash, Beau D’Orsay, and Beau Brummel[234]
  ”  on Three Champion Batsmen[234]
  ”  on the Midge, the Gnat, and the Mosquito[234]
  ”  on the Rose, Shamrock, and Thistle[234]
  ”  on Tyndall, Huxley, and Darwin[234]
  ”  on a Beau, a Dandy, and a Masher[234]
  ”  on Gladstone, Sir S. Northcote, and Randolph Churchill[234]
  ”  on the Members for Eye, Bridport, and Woodstock[235]
  ”  on Lord Salisbury, Sir S. Northcote, and Lord R. Churchill (several)[235]
  ”  on Gladstone, John Bright, and J. Chamberlain[235]
  ”  on Gambetta, Prince Bismarck, and Gladstone[235]
  ”  on the Irish Party (several)[235]
  ”  on Lord Beaconsfield, Mr. Gladstone, and Lord R. Churchill[235]
  ”  on Whigs, Parnellites, and Tories[233]
  ”  on Sir Wilfrid Lawson[235]
  ”  on Pitt, Fox, and Gladstone[236]
  ”  on Irving, Bancroft, and Toole[236]
  ”  on Toole, Sullivan, and Irving[236]
  ”  on Irving, Augustus Harris, and Wilson Barrett[236]
  ”  on Mrs. Langtry, Miss Ellen Terry, Miss Mary Anderson[236]
——:o:——
Bret Harte.
Dickens in Camp[1]
Parodies in print, November, 1884[1]
Plain Language from Truthful James—
That Hebrew Ben D——, 1878[1]
Plain Language from Truthful Robert[3]
That Greenwich M.P. (on Mr. Gladstone)[244]
The Heathen M.P. (on Mr. Disraeli, in 1876)[245]
“Ben Diz was his name”[245]
On Chang, the Chinese Giant[245]
The Aged Stranger—
“I was with Grant” (Albert Grant) 1874[2]
Home, sweet Home, with variations, by Bret Harte, 1881[3]
His Finger, a Prose Parody[4]
The Return of Belisarius—
To “Auld Willie,” September, 1884[3]
“Jim”—
On Bret Harte[246]
——:o:——
Thomas Hood.
The Song of the Shirt—
The Night “Comp”[4]
The Song of the Dirt (Covent Garden in 1884)[4]
A Song of the Follies of Fashion, 1880[5]
The Overseer’s Lament in Australia, 1853, by M. P. Stoddart[255]
The Song of the Dirt, 1858[256]
The Song of the Student, 1854[256]
The Song of Exams. (Aberdeen)[257]
The Song of the Drink[257]
The Song of the Wheel[258]
The Song of the Sponge[258]
The Song of the Streets[259]
I Remember, I Remember—
A Parody of, by Phœbe Carey[4]
A Parody of, by Tom Hood, junior[5]
What it may come to (the House of Lords)[5]
Reminiscences of a Grinder (Aberdeen, 1854)[258]
Manchester Musings[259]
The Dream of Eugene Aram—
The Wanstead Home[5]
The Blue-coat Boys’ Ghost[5]
A Case of Conscience[259]
The Lost Child, or Russell’s Lament on the Loss of his Reform Bill, 1867[5]
“Our heads have met, and if thine smarts,”[258]
The Bridge of Sighs—
The Age of Sighs, 1868[259]
Old Year unfortunate (1885)[259]
——:o:——
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Excelsior—
Higher[6]
Diogenes, 1854[6]
Upwards, 1873[6]
M. Duruof, 1874[7]
The Excelsior Climbing Boy, 1875[7]
“The Swampy State of Illinois”[8]
The Dowager-Duchess at a Drawing Room[8]
“’Brellas to mend”[8]
On Mr. Disraeli’s first speech in Parliament[17]
The Workhouse (Bob)[17]
The Griffin[17]
The Country Fair (Minnie Mum.)[17]
What Roads! W. F. Field[18]
Sloper[18]
Divitior, 1858[250]
Nettle-rash (from St. Bartholomew’s)[251]
Young Lambs to sell[251]
U-pi-dee, by F. C. Burnand[251]
“Loved Arabella,” 1867[252]
Ye poor Mahdi, 1884[252]
“Ten thousand pounds”[253]
(re Maskelyne v. Irving Bishop)
A Psalm of Life—
What the young woman said to the old maid, by Phœbe Carey, 1854[11]
“Tell me not in doleful murmurs,” by Thomas Thatcher[11]
“Please be cheerful,” advice to Novelists[11]
A Psalm of Farming[12]
A Song of St. Stephen’s, 1882[12]
A Psalm of Burial (on Cremation)[12]
On Reading a Life and Letters[12]
An Imitation, by C. Baudelaire[24]
A Christmas Psalm of Life[246]
A Psalm for the Trade[246]
The Yankee Merchant to his book-keeper[247]
The Psalm of Life as exhibited in Christmas Annuals[247]
The Day Is Done—
A parody of, by Phœbe Carey, 1854[12]
The Arrow and the Song[13]
The Birds and the Pheasant, 1867[13]
The Ex-Premier (Mr. Gladstone), 1877[13]
The Arrow and the Hound, 1884[13]
The Bubble and the Bullet, by William Sawyer[248]
Beware!—
“I know a maiden fair to see” (Kate Vaughan)[9]
“I know a masher dark to see”[9]
“I know a youth who can flirt and flatter”[247]
“I know a Barber who in town doth dwell”[248]
“I know a maiden with a bag”[248]
The Song of the Oyster Land[248]
The Village Blacksmith.
Under Britannia’s spreading Oak, 1884[9]
The Low Bohemian, 1878[10]
The Village Schoolboy[10]
“Beside a Dingy Public-house,”[10]
The War Blacksmith, 1866[18]
The Lord Chancellor, Finis, 1877[19]
The Village Pet. R. E. Blow[21]
The City Blackleg[249]
“Before a Study of the Nude”[249]
The Norman Baron—
The Roman Prelate, by Walter Parke[249]
Voices of the Night—
Voices of our Nights, 1861[9]
The Old Clock on the Stairs[23]
Imitated by C. Baudelaire[24]
Flowers—
Flowers of Rotten Row in 1858[250]
The Bridge—
“I lay in my bed at midnight”[250]
The Arsenal at Springfield—
The Soirée, by Phœbe Carey, 1854[14]
Evangeline—
Dollarine; a tale of California, 1849[14]
The Lost tails of Miletus, by Bret Harte[15]
Mabel, the Made-up, Finis 1877[21]
The Song of Hiawatha—
Marks and Remarks on the Royal Academy, 1856[15]
The Great Medicine-Man, Punch, 1867[15]
Revenge, a Rhythmic Recollection[16]
The Song of Big Ben (Truth)[16]
The Song of Progress, 1884[16]
Le Calumet de Paix, by C. Baudelaire[24]
The Great Tichborne Demonstration[253]
Pahtahquahong, by Walter Parke[253]
The Song of Cetewayo, 1882[254]
The Printer’s Hiawatha[254]
La Belle Sauvage (Princess Pocahontas), 1870[255]
——:o:——
John Milton.
The Splendid Shilling, in imitation of Milton, by John Philips, 1700[217]
The Crooked Sixpence, by Bramston[219]
Wine, a Poem, 1709[219]
A Panegyric on Oxford Ale, 1822[221]
The Suet Dumpling[222]
The Copper Farthing, by Miss Pennington[222]
The School boy, by the Rev. Mr. Maurice[224]
The Opening of Parliament, (Prize Parody) by John Foote, 1880[225]
Another version, by H. Hamilton, 1880[226]
Prae-Existence, a poem in imitation of John Milton, by J. B., 1714[226]
Dr. Bentley’s alterations of Milton[226]
L’Allegro, and Il Penseroso—
Whitsuntide, by the Rev. George Huddersford, 1793[227]
Christmas     do.     do.[227]
The Garrulous Man, 1776[227]
L’Allegro; or Fun, a Parody[227]
The Hare Hunter, by Mundy, 1824[229]
Fashion, a Paraphrase of L’Allegro, 1814[229]
Ode on the Centennial Birthday of Burns, by Samuel Lover, 1859[231]
Football, by the Author of “The Idylls of the Rink,” 1883[231]
A Reading Man, 1824[233]
A Seaside Sonnet, after Milton-Oysters[233]
Milton’s Epitaph on Shakespeare[232]
Two Parodies on the same, from Punch, dated 1856 & 1863[232]
——:o:——
Edgar Allan Poe.
Sketch of his Career[25]
The Philosophy of Composition[26]
The Raven[27]
A Gentle Puff, 1845[28]
The Gazelle, by C. C. Cooke, 1845[28]
The Whippoorwill, 1845[29]
The Vulture, by Robert B. Brough, 1853[30]
The Tankard, by Edmund H. Yates, 1855[31]
The Parrot, by R. B. Brough, 1856[32]
The Cat-Fiend (in prose), 1868[32]
The Craven (Napoleon III), 1867[33]
The Tailor, by A. Merion, 1872[34]
The Shavin’, John F. Mill[35]
Chateaux d’Espagne, by H. S. Leigh[35]
A Ravin’. The Figaro, 1873[36]
Dunraven. Punch, 1881, 1884[36] [57]
The Dove, a Sentimental Parody. J. W. Scott[37]
Lines on the Death of Poe. Sarah J. Bolton[38]
My Christmas Pudding[39]
On a Fragment of a Five-dollar Bill[40]
Nothing More[40]
Her Pa’s Dog[40]
The Phantom Cat, by F. Field, 1868[41]
The Croaker, 1875[42]
The Stoker (on Dr. Kenealy), 1875. J. Verey[43]
The Raven, from the Liverpool Porcupine, 1875[44]
A Black Bird that could sing, but wouldn’t sing, 1876[45]
Cowgate Philanthrophy, 1876[46]
Lines to the Speaker of the House of Commons, from Truth, 1877[47]
The Baby, from Finis, 1877[48]
The Maiden, D. J. M., 1879[49]
The Promissory Note, Bayard Taylor[50]
The “Ager,” by J. P. Stelle[50]
The Chancellor and the Surplus, 1579[51]
The Raven, dedicated to the Duke of Somerset[52]
The Gold Digger, 1880[53]
Quart Pot Creek, by J. Brunton Stephens[54]
A Sequel, The Spirits, W. T. Ross[55]
The Drama Despondent, 1882[56]
A Voice[57]
The Ravenous Bull and the Bicycle[58]
A Cat-as-Trophy, in prose, 1866[58]
The End of “The Raven,” 1884[59]
Sequel to the Raven, by R. A. Lavender (a Spirit poem)[59]
A Vigil Vision, by H. Bickford[60]
Isadore, by Alfred Pike, 1843[61]
Plutonian Shore, by J. E. Tuel, 1849[70]
The Goblin Goose. Punch, 1881[71]
The College Craven. P. G. S., 1884[71]
The (C)raven Student[72]
Le Corbeau, by S. Mallarmé, 1875[72]
Vox Corvi, 1694[73]
Poe-tical Forgeries[73]
The Fire Fiend, September, 1864, by Charles D. Gardette[73]
Golgotha, by Charles D. Gardette[75]
The Raven, in Dublin[92]
The Raven, said to have been translated by Poe from a Persian Poem[92]
Sequel to the Raven, a Spiritual Poem by R. A. Lavender[93]
A Grand Poem, by Lizzie Doten, 1872[94]
Farewell to Earth, by Lizzie Doten[95]
The Vulture, by Somers Bellamy, 1885[136]
Spiritual Poems, in imitation of Poe, by Mrs. Lydia Tenney[93]
The Raven, by R. Allston Lavender[93]
A Grand Poem, by Lizzie Doten[94]
The Kingdom,   ”  ”[94]
Farewell to Earth  ”  ”[95]
Improvisations from the Spirit, by Dr. J. J. Garth Wilkinson, 1857[95]
Pot-Pourri, reprinted from the scarce New York Edition of 1875—
The Ruined Palace. (The Haunted Palace)[96]
Dream-Mere. (Dreamland)[96]
Israfiddlestrings. (Israfel)[97]
The Ghouls in the Belfry. (The Bells)[98]
Hullaloo. (Ulalume)[99]
To Any. (For Annie)[100]
Hannibal Leigh. (Annabel Lee)[101]
Raving. (The Raven)[102]
The Monster Maggot. (The Conqueror Worm)[102]
Poetic Fragments[103]
Under-Lines[103]
The Bells[75]
The Swells, by R. B. Brough, 1857[76]
The Ball-Room Belles. Fun. 1865[77]
Pills, by Damer Cape, 1866[77]
The Hells. The Tomahawk, 1867[78]
Christmas Fancies. Fun, 1867[79]
The Bells[79]
The Bills, by Thomas Hood, the younger, 1870[80]
The Flute[81]
The Chimes done in Rhymes, an American parody, 1871[81]
The Bills, from the Light Green, 1872[82]
The Bells, by an overworked Waiter, 1875[82]
The Girls[83]
The Bills, by a Mercantile Poet, 1875[83]
The Belles, Benjamin D——, 1876[83]
The Bills. The Corkscrew Papers, 1876[84]
The Swells. Worthy a Crown?[85]
The Bells. Fiz, 1878[85]
The Bills. Funny Folks, 1879[86]
The Hose. Puck, 1879[87]
The Bills. Punch, 1879[87]
Bills. Truth, 1880[88]
The Bells, Mr. Irving in, 1883[89]
The Voice of the Bells, by W. A. Eaton[89]
The Bills. Detroit Free Press[89]
“O! The Hammers,” by William Allan, 1883[90]
Reminiscences of Summer, 1883[90]
That Amateur Flute, an American Parody[90]
The Office Boy’s Mother in America[91]
Israfel—
Bisakel, by J. E. Dalton, 1880[91]
The Steed of Fire   ”   ”[91]
Annabel Lee[61]
Samuel Brown, by Phœbe Carey, 1854[61]
The Cannibal Flea, by Tom Hood, the younger[62]
The L. C. D. and the L. S. D. by Joseph Verey[62]
St. Rose of Lima, by Walter Parke, 1882[63]
Beautiful B—— (Wilson Barrett), J. W. G. W.[63]
Annabel Lee, from “Mr. and Mrs. Spoopendyke,” by Stanley Huntley[64]
Ulalume[64]
Paralune. Punch, 1881[64]
The Willows, by Bret Harte[65]
What is in a Name, by Thomas Hood, junior[65]
You’ll Resume. Punch, 1882[66]
Hope; An Allegory, by John H. Ingram[66]
Covent Garden. Fun, 1867[68]
The Kingdom, a Spirit poem, by Lizzie Doten[94]
Lenore
The Supper of the Four, by A. Merion, 1872[67]
For Annie[68]
Tristan and Isolde, by J. W. G. W.[68]
Ligiea—
Hygiea. Punch, 1880[69]
The Demon of the Doldrums[69]
——:o:——
William Shakespeare.
A Prologue, in imitation of Othello’s address tothe Senate[144]
Correspondence in The Daily News, 1883, concerningthe Gaiety burlesques of The Tempest, andHamlet, including letters from Mr. Moy Thomas,Mr. W. Kennedy, Mr. John Hollingshead, andMr. F. C. Burnand[144]
The Daily News on Shakespearian Burlesques, October 25, 1884[205]
Dreary Song for Dreary Summer, by Shirley Brooks, 1860[205]
Shakespoke’s Epigram, by J. G. Dalton[205]
The Shakespeare Monument Committee, 1823[205]
The “New Shakspere Society,” and Mr. F. J. Furnivall[162]
THE TEMPEST—
The Tempest; or, the Enchanted Isle, by Sir W. Davenant and John Dryden[146]
The Enchanted Isle; or, Raising the Wind, by R. B.and W. Brough, produced at the Adelphi Theatre,1848, with the cast[203]
Ariel, by F. C. Burnand, produced at the Gaiety Theatre, October, 1883, with the cast[204]
Where the Bee Sucks[204]
Who would be Great Grand Lord High? By J. R. Planché[204]
“Our Revels now are ended”[204]
“Those Golden pallaces,” by Lord Stirling[204]
“Our Parodies are ended”[204]
MEASURE FOR MEASURE—
“Take, O, Take Those Lips Away”[188]
Take, O, take that bill away[188]
Take, O, take the haunch away, by W. H. Ireland, 1803[188]
Take, O, take that wreath away (to Mr. Tracy Turnerelli)[189]
I bought thee late a golden wreath (after Ben Jonson)[189]
Take, O, take Parnell away, 1882[189]
Ay, but to die, and go we know not where[244]
Ay, but to love, and not be loved again[244]
Oh, but to fade, and live we know not where,by Phœbe Carey[169]
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING—
“Sigh no more, Ladies”[202]
Rail no more, Tories, 1823[202]
Sigh no more, Dealers, 1867[203]
A MIDSUMMER-NIGHT’S DREAM—
Act I. A Midsummer Nightmare, 1885[197]
Act II. The Casting of the Cabinet, 1885[197]
“That very time I saw,” by Phœbe Carey[169]
I Know a Bank[198]
I know a Bank (a monody on Money), 1879[198]
I know a Bank (at Paddington), 1883[198]
I am that merry wanderer of the night (Lord R. Churchill)[199]
THE MERCHANT OF VENICE—
Shylock; or, the Merchant of Venice Preserved; by F. Talfourd. Produced at the Olympic Theatre, 1853[179]
“What find I here? Fair Portia’s counterfeit”[180]
Tell me, where is Fancy bred?[180]
Tell me, what is Fancy Bread?[180]
A Parody by J. R. Planché, 1843[204]
The Quality of Mercy is not strained—
The Jollity of Nursey is not feigned, 1883[180]
This Quality of Jelly must be strained, 1880[180]
The Quality of Flirting is not strained[204]
AS YOU LIKE IT—
The Seven Ages of Man[169]
“All the Town’s a Slide,” 1850[172]
“All the World’s a Stable”[174] [242]
“All the World’s away” (for the holidays)[241]
“All Parliament’s a Stage” (Political)[241]
“All the Night’s a Stage” (on noises)[242]
“All the Day’s a Plague” (on street noises)[242]
“All the World’s a Newspaper,” 1824[195]
The Stage Coach Company, 1803[170]
The Patriot’s Progress, 1814[170]
The Seven Ages of Woman[170] [174]
The Seven Ages of Æstheticism[171]
The Seven Ages of Intemperance, 1834[171]
The Poetry of the Steam Engine, 1846[172]
The Seven Ages of the French Republic, 1848[172]
The Seven Ages of a Public Man, 1855[172]
The Catalogue of the British Museum[173]
The Seven Ages in Mincing Lane, 1868[173]
The Politician’s Seven Ages, 1868[173]
The Seven Ages of Acting, 1884[174]
The Seven Ages of Love, 1881[174]
The Seven Carriages of Man, 1885[174]
The Seven Drinks of Man, 1885[175]
The Seven Courses at Dinner[241] [242]
The Seven Ages of Cricket[242]
The Seven Ages of a Clergyman[243]
The Seven Ages of a Politician[243]
The Seven Forms of Insanity[243]
The Seven Ages of a Sailor[243]
The Seven Ages of Fashion[244]
“Dinner is a Stage,” by F. B. Doveton[240]
“Parliament’s a Stage” (Political)[241]
Bud, Blossom, and Decay, by T. F. D. Croker[195]
Jaques in Capel Court, 1845 (Gambling on the Stock Exchange)[171]
A Paraphrase, by E. L Blanchard, 1866[196]
Oxford is a Stage, 1868[196]
A Shakespearian after-dinner Recitation, by F. Upton,[196]
A Fool, a fool! I met a fool i’ the Forest[194]
The same, with a cold in the head (at Combe)[194]
A Dude—a dude! I met a dude[195]
Blow, blow thou Winter Wind, a parody on[176]
Lines on Mrs. Langtry as Rosalind, 1882[176]
Lines on Miss Mary Anderson as Rosalind, at Stratford-on-Avon, August, 1885[244]
Under the Greenwood Tree[196]
Under the Greenwood Shed, by Shirley Brooks, 1866[197]
A WINTER’S TALE—
Perdita, or the Royal Milkmaid, by William Brough.Produced at the Lyceum Theatre, 1856, with the cast[200]
Zapolya, a Christmas Tale by S. T. Coleridge, 1817[200]
KING JOHN—
King John Burlesque, by G. A. A’Beckett. Produced at the St. James’s Theatre in 1837[199]
Cast of Characters in the burlesque, and extractsfrom it[199]
KING HENRY V.—
Prologue Act IV.[201]
Lord Mayor’s Day, 1827[201]
RICHARD THE THIRD—
“Now is the Winter of our discontent”[189]
“The World” Parody, Competition. The return of Lord Chelmsford from Zululand[190]
Cetewayo’s Soliloquy[190]
King Richard ye Third, by Charles Selby, at theStrand Theatre in 1844[190]
The Rise and Fall of Richard III., or a new Front toan old Dicky, by F. C. Burnand, at the RoyaltyTheatre in 1868, with the Cast[191]
Richard III, Travestie, by William By, 1816[191]
Richard III. Burlesque, by J. Sterling Coyne, 1844[191]
KING HENRY VIII.—
Cardinal Wolsey’s Farewell[191]
Henry Irving’s Farewell, 1875[191]
Mr. Gladstone’s Farewell to his Old China, 1875[191]
A Parody in College Rhymes[192]
ROMEO AND JULIET—
I do remember an old Bachelor, 1832[176]
I do remember a Cook’s shop[176]
I do remember a young pleader, by G. Wentworth, 1824[176]
I do remember a strange man, a herald, by R. Surtees[177]
Ha! I remember a low sort of shop, by J. R. Planché[204]
The Shakespeare of the Period, 1869—
Romeo and Juliet, as arranged by T. W. Robertson[177]
Romeo and Juliet, as arranged by T. Maddison Morton[178]
Romeo and Juliet as arranged by H. J. Byron[178]
  Do.    Do. as arranged by Dion Boucicault[178]
Romeo and Juliet Travestie, by Andrew Halliday.Produced at the Strand Theatre, 1859[179]
Romeo and Juliet; or, the Shaming of the True.Performed at Oxford during Commemoration, 1868[179]
JULIUS CÆSAR.
The Speech of Brutus over the Body of Cæsar[192]
The Poacher’s Apology[192]
Marc Antony’s Speech[192]
Parody Competition in The Weekly Dispatch, June 28, 1885.[193]
A Speech by Sir W. Harcourt, by T. A. Wilson[193]
A Speech by John Bright, by H. L. Brickel[193]
On Mr. Gladstone leaving Office, by George Mallinson[193]
MACBETH.
Macbeth, in a Song from Rejected Addresses[181]
The Incantation on Penenden Plain, 1828[181]
Is this a Sovereign which I feel behind me? 1852[182]
Macbeth Travestie, in Accepted Addresses[182]
Macbeth Travestie, by F. Talfourd, 1847. Performedat Henley; at the Strand Theatre in 1848; and atthe Olympic Theatre in 1853[182]
Making the Pudding; a Christmas Incantation[183]
The Modern Macbeth. H. Savile Clarke, 1885[183]
Shakespeare’s Recipe for cooking a Beef Steak[184]
M. Alexis Soyer’s Soup for the Poor (on the Incantation Scene)[239]
Macbeth’s Soliloquy parodied, 1830[240]
Shakespeare’s Ghost on the New Apocalypse August, 1885[240]
HAMLET.
To be, or not to be (from the 1623 folio edition)[146]
Oh, say! To be, or not to be? As a song, from George Cruikshank’s Almanac, 1846[146]
To Be, or not to Be? By T. Thatcher[146]
To Be, or not to Be? On London’s Municipal Reform, 1884[147]
To Be, or not to Be? By Mark Twain[147]
To Be, or not to Be? As supposed to be amended by Mr. F. J. Furnivall[163]
To Act, or not to Act? (on Speculation)[147]
To Affiliate, or not to Affiliate?[148]
To Bake, or not to Bake? Advertisement[148]
To Bathe, or not to Bathe?[148]
To Bee, or not to Bee? (Spelling Bee)[148]
To Be, or not to Be? (Gladstone’s Soliloquy) Prize Parody by Jessie H. Wheeler[149]
To Box, or not to Box?[149]
Burgh, or No-Burgh? From the Ardrossan Herald[146]
Canal, or no Canal? By F. B. Cottier (on the Suez Canal)[150]
To Cheat, or not to Cheat? By an Attorney[150]
Clôture or no Clôture? Punch, 1882[151]
To Come, or not to Come? For a Bashful Reciter, by Henry J. Finn[151]
Compromise, or no Compromise? 1884[151]
To Dance, or not to Dance? Judy, 1871[151]
To Drink, or not to Drink? American Paper[152]
Ditto   ditto    Punch, 1841[152]
Ditto   ditto    From Hamlet Travestie, by F. Talfourd, 1849[152]
To Dun, or not to Dun? The Mirror, 1823[152]
To Dye, or not to Dye? The Tomahawk, 1869[153]
To Dig, or not to Dig? J. M. Dron (Another proposed Suez Canal)[150]
Etre, ou ne pas être! A French version[162]
A Flea, or not a Flea? by James Robinson[153]
To Fight, or not to Fight? 1823[202]
To Go, or not to Go? Ophelia’s Version.[153]
To Have it out, or not? A Dental Soliloquy[153]
To Hiss, or not to Hiss? The Puppet Show[154]
To Hunt, or not to Hunt? The Mirror, 1823[154]
To Pay, or not to Pay? The Debtor’s Soliloquy, by F. J. Overton, 1881[154]
To Pay, or not to Pay? (on the Suez Canal). by Leonard Harding[150]
To be, or not to be Polite? Gossip, 1885[155]
To Print, or not to Print? Rev. R. Jago[155]
To Yield, or not to Yield? (To the Tories)[149]
To Rat, or not to Rat? Once a Week, 1868[155]
To Smoke, or not to Smoke?[244]
To Sleep, or not to Sleep? O. P. Q. P. Smiff[162]
To Shave, or not to Shave? Diogenes, 1854[155]
Ditto   ditto by T. F. Dillon-Croker[156]
To Starve, or not to Starve? W. H. Ireland[156]
To Sniggle, or to Dibble? by F. C. Burnand[202]
To Stick to Hoy, or not? The Argus, 1831[157]
To Stitch, or not to Stitch? The Mirror[157]
To Strike, or not to Strike? by a Cabman, 1867,[157]
To Stand, or not to Stand, 1808[161]
Trousers, or no Trousers? (The Bloomer Question) The Month, 1851[158]
Tubby, or not Tubby? by F. C. Burnand[161]
To Urn, or not to Urn? by William Sawyer[161]
To Vaccinate, or not? 1881[158]
To Wash, or not to Wash? by J. P. Roberdeau, 1803[158]
To Write, or not to Write? The New Lady’s Magazine, 1786[160]
On the Marriage Question.
To Wed, or not to Wed? The New Lady’s Magazine, 1786[158]
To Woo, or not to Woo? Posthumous Parodies, 1814[159]
To Wed, or not to Wed? by W. A. Clouston[159]
Marry, or not to Marry? Political Note Book, 1824[159]
To Wed, or not to Wed? Echoes from the Clubs, 1868[159]
Ditto   ditto, Anonymous[161]
To Be, or not to Be (married)? by W. H. Edmunds[160]
To Pop, or not to Pop the fatal question?[160]
When a man becomes tired of his life (Song foundedon the Soliloquy)[162]
The Soliloquy in Hebrew, 1880[202]
Hamlet in Prose, 1848[202]
The Ghost Scene parodied[203]
Hamlet Travestie, by John Poole, 1810[161]
Hamlet, or, not such a fool as he looks, by the Author of “The Light Green” 1882[160]
Very Little Hamlet, by W. Yardley, at the Gaiety Theatre, 1884[164]
Hamlet Travestie, by F. Talfourd, 1849[164]
Three Children sliding on the Ice[162]
Furnivallos Furioso and the Newest Shakespeare Society, 1876[163]
The advice of Polonius to Laertes, a Parody of, by H. J. Byron[164]
Hamlet’s instructions to the Players, Parody of, by W. S. Gilbert, in The Pretty Druidess, 1869[165]
See what an incubus sits on our City, 1882[165]
Look here upon this picture, and on this[165]
A Parody Cigarette Advertisement[165]
Parody of the scene between Polonius and Ophelia, by F. Talfourd[165]
The Barrow Diggers, an Antiquarian conversation in imitation of the Grave Diggers Scene, 1839[167]
An Irish Play bill, 1793[169]
Ben Dizzy patch’d and mended for to-day, Fiz, 1879[169]
Hamlet from a new point of view[164]
OTHELLO—
Othello’s Speech to the Senate[184]
The Strolling Player’s Apology[184]
Kenealy’s Speech to the Senate, 1875[184]
“Good name, in Man and Woman”[185]
A Parody in the Ingoldsby Legends[185]
Farewell, the tranquil mind![185]
A Parody, by George Colman[185]
The Undertaker’s Farewell, 1849[185]
Farewell the quiet chop! (at Evans’s) 1879[185]
Shakespeare’s Farewell[185]
Address by J. P. Kemble. (O.P. Riots, 1810)[186]
William IV. and Reform, 1832, Parody of a scene from Othello[186]
Punch and Lord John Russell, 1848[187]
Henry Irving as Othello[187]
Othello Travestie, an Operatic Burlesque Burletta,by Maurice G. Dowling, produced at Liverpoolin 1834, and at the Strand Theatre[188]
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA—
An Extravaganza, founded on Antony and Cleopatra,by F. C. Burnand, produced at the HaymarketTheatre, 1866[201]
CYMBELINE—
Fear no more the heat o’ the Sun[193]
Fear no more the voice of the don, 1872[194]
“Our Parodies are ended”[204]
——:o:——
King Queer, and his Daughters Three, at the Strand Theatre, 1855[205]
A Coriolanus Travestie, by J. Morgan, produced in Liverpool, 1846[205]
——:o:——
Miss Ann Taylor.
My Mother[106]
A History of the poem “My Mother”[106]
My Mary, by William Cowper[107]
My Mother, by an Outcast[107]
 ”  ”  by F. Talfourd[167]
My Mother-in-Law[108]
Mothers. The Humourist[143]
My Baedeker, from Tracts in Norway[143]
My Banker. Punch 1855[111]
 ”  ”  Judy 1879[142]
My Barrett (Mr. Wilson Barrett), 1884[111]
My Bismarck. Judy 1867[112]
My Broker. Punch 1875[111]
My Brother[142]
 ”  ”  The Boys Own Paper, 1884[109]
My Father[134]
My Mother[134]
My Brother[134]
My Sister[135]
My Boot-Hooks. The Man in the Moon[113]
My Bicycle. J. G. Dalton[113]
My Bishop. Thomas Moore[123]
My Chignon. Girl of the Period[113]
My Client. Punch, 1875[111] [112]
My Dentist. R. E. Egerton-Warburton[113]
My Father. Truth, 1877[127]
My Godwin. J. and H. Smith[121]
My Hairs. Thomas Hood[114]
My Hookah[114]
My Jenny (on Jenny Lind)[114]
My Landlady. Figaro Album[115]
My Lodger. Judy, 1869[115]
My Little-go. College Rhymes, 1865[115]
My Member. Punch, 1852[116]
My Murray. Punch, 1857[116]
My Miguel. Thomas Moore[122]
My Nose. John Jones[116]
My Punch[117]
My Relations. Funny Folks, 1879[108]
My Stockings[117]
My Tutor. Paulopostprandials, 1883[143]
My Tailor, by a Man of Fashion[117]
My Ticker. Punch, 1842[118]
My Uncle (ascribed to Louis Napoleon)[118]
My Uncle. Punch, 1845[118]
My Uncle. John Taylor[118]
My Uncle. Punch, 1871[119]
My Valentine. Judy, 1880[119]
My Whalley. The Tomahawk, 1867[119]
My Whiskers. The Belle Assemblée, 1833[120]
My Yot. Punch, 1880[120]
A Lay of Real Life[109]
Audi Alteram Partem[110]
Harry’s Complaint[110]
A Sister’s Complaint[110]
“Another,” by J. W. G. W.[135]
Avitor, by Bret Harte[132]
“Baby” at the Strand Theatre, Fun, 1879[128]
Blucher, Cambridge Odes[123]
Cattle Show Queries[132]
Free Trade v. Protection, Punch, 1849[124]
Her Mother, Finis[109]
Her Mother, Funny Folks[132]
King Clicquot, Punch, 1855[125]
Lines by a Girl of the Future, 1869[126]
L. S. D. (Money), Figaro, 1874[127]
Nobody[132]
Nursy-Pursy, The Tomahawk, 1869[108]
Our Bishops, Jon Duan, 1874[127]
Our Sunday down East, Punch, 1880[129]
Our Marquis, Truth, 1884[130]
The Turncock, Punch, 1843[124]
The Ramoneur, Punch, 1843[124]
The Baker. Punch, 1853[124]
The Poet, C. Rae Brown, 1855[125]
The Baby Show, Cuthbert Bede, 1856[126] [108]
The Russians, Benjamin D——, 1876[127]
The “Doctor,” Funny Folks, 1877[128]
The Weather, Truth, 1879[128]
The Weather, Punch, 1881[129]
The Egyptian Baby (Tewfik)[130]
The Fog, Judy, 1882[130]
The Mahdi, The Referee, 1884[130]
The Lords. H. E. Harker[131]
The “Comp.”[131]
The Newspaper, 1823[122]
The Proctor, The Gownsman, 1831[123]
The Slug, Judy, 1873[141]
The Fog, Judy, 1876[141]
The Nervous, The Argosy, 1866[142]
The Bible[133]
The Orange[133]
The People’s William, Ipswich Journal, 1885[131]
Tight Lacing, Truth, 1879[128]
Your Friend, Countess of Blessington[120]
Another Friend (a Stick)[121]
Woman, L. O. Shaw 1815[121]
Velluti, 1828[122]
Valentine (the Curate)[142]
What the Seasons bring[130]
Who? Ah, who? The Figaro, 1874[110]
Who’s who in 1851. Punch, 1851[112]
——:o:——
Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
Mariana—
Mariana on the Second Floor, 1851[260]
Mary Anne; or the Law of Divorce, 1858[260]
The Owl’d Yarn, by R. F. Hind[261]
Oriana—
Yule Tide (Oh, my Gracious!)[261]
The Ballad of Hoary Anna[261]
Idadæca, from Kottabos, 1881[262]
Randy-Pandy, by George Cotterell, 1885[203]
Lady Clara Vere de Vere—
Miss Matilda Johnson Jones, by Gilbert Abbot à Beckett, 1845[263]
The Merman—
The Mer(ry)man, by George Cotterell[264]
The May Queen—
“You must save me from the Jingoes,” by J. Arthur Elliott[139]
Hodge’s Emancipation, by John H. Gibson[140]
Outside the Lyceum, April, 1885[140]
The Lord Mayor[264]
The May Queen with a cold[264]
Russia to England[265]
At the Play[265]
The Lotus Eaters—
The Onion Eaters[140]
A Dream of Fair Women—
A Vision of Great Men[265]
A Dream of Fair Drinking[265]
A Dream of Unfair Trade[265]
Ulysses—
The Czar of Russia[265]
Locksley Hall—
Lay of Boxing Night, 1847[266]
Lincoln’s Inn, by Albert Smith, 1851[266]
St. Stephen’s Revisited, by G. Cotterell[267]
The Grinder, March, 1885[267]
Digwell’s Lament, 1865[267]
Godiva—
Whittington, 1858[268]
The Eagle, and a Parody[268]
Break, Break, Break—
“Block, block, block,” by G. Cotterell[263]
“Sleep, sleep, sleep,” by F. Field[209]
The Lost Joke[269]
“Talk, talk, talk!” (to Mr. Parnell)[269]
“Wake, wake, wake!” by R. H. W. Yeabsley[269]
“Thirst, thirst, thirst!”[269]
“Broke, broke, broke!”[269]
Who breaks pays[269]
Gladstone hath us in his net[270]
The Brook—
The Song of the Flirt[270]
The Mont Cenis Train, 1868[270]
The Corn, by Jayhay, 1878[271]
The River, a Steamboat version[271]
The Song of the Steam Launch[272]
The Sherbrooke. A Lowe Ballad[272]
A Lay of Lawn Tennis[272]
Home they brought her Warrior dead—
Home they brought her “Worrier” dead[273]
“Let me lie here,” by John Cotton[273]
Give me no more[140]
“The Slander falls in different halls”[273]
Tears, Idle Tears—
Tears, maudlin Tears[141]
The Charge of the Light Brigade—
The Light (Blue) Brigade—The University Boat Race[273]
The Gas Stoker’s Strike, by J. Verey, 1873[274]
Clapham Junction, by J. Verey[274]
The Charge of the “Light” Brigade, by C. T. Druery[274]
The Charge of the Heavy Brigade at Kassassin[275]
The Charge of the Fire Brigade[275]
A Welcome to Alexandra—
Stradella, by Rose Grey, 1863[275]
A Welcome to Battenberg, Funny Folks[136]
In Tennysoniam, by Albert Smith, 1851[276]
A Parody of Tennyson’s Prefatory Sonnet for “The Nineteenth Century”[276]
Wages, Judy[140]
Idylls of the King—
A Parody of the Dedication (on John Brown)[276]
A little rift within the lute[277]
“Too soon, too soon”[277]
“Little Miss Muffet” as an Arthurian Idyll[277]
Despair, 1881—
Never say die[278]
Hands all round, by John Phelan[278]
The Fleet (April, 1885), The Times[137]
The Bard (on his reported imbecility)[137] [138]
A Laurel. J. Fox Turner[137]
“We, we.” E. S. Watson[137]
Tennyson (on his reported lunacy)[137]
Tennyson Tackled. Punch[137]
Our Fleet. Moonshine[138]
Parody Competition Poems on The Fleet.—
Prize Parody, by Mrs. Emily Lawrence[138]
A Conservative (on his leader’s reported inefficiency). Henry L. Brickell[138]
The Government. John Carter[139]
The Laureate. Exe[135]
The Corporation. Thomas H. Knight[139]
To the Jingo. George Mallinson[139]
To the Jingo. Edward Scott[139]
Gladstone’s Rebuke. Jesse H. Wheeler[139]
The Unfitness of the Meat, by F. B. Doveton[279]
Lines to Princess Beatrice on her Marriage[279]
Two Suns of Love make day of human life[279]
Two Moons for thee of honey and of strife[279]
Two sums of cash will fill a German purse[279]
Two tones of love make woe of married life[279]
Two things, no doubt, make day of married life[280]
Two tricks of trade make bearable my life[280]
Two sorts of grants make rich the royal train[280]
Two bridal loves make laugh of “You, you’s” song[280]
Tennyson on General Gordon[141]
——:o:——
Isaac Watts, D.D.
How doth the little busy Bee[206]
How doth the little busy Flea[206] [208]
How doth the ever busy Wasp[207]
How doth the busy Russian Bee, 1875[207]
How doth the dizzy Disraeli, 1858[207]
How doth the lively Spelling Bee, 1876[207]
How doth the little busy Wheeze[207]
How doth the busy Parliament, 1876[208]
How doth the little Crocodile[208]
How doth the little Mosquito[208]
How doth the honest Land League man, 1881[208]
How doth the little coal-hole top[208]
How doth the very Bizzy Bee (Bismarck)[209]
How doth the gorging, greedy Bee[209]
How doth the wobbling, wily wops[209]
Buggins’s Variations of the Busy Bee[209]
A Prose Version[207]
Let Dogs delight to bark and bite[210]
Let Canine Animals, 1847[210]
Let Austria delight to bark and bite, 1854[210]
Let peaceful Bright in speech delight, 1854[210]
Let Lords delight to bark and bite, 1869[210]
Let Rads delight to bark and bite[211]
Let Bigots write with sneers of spite[211]
Let Fools and Bullies brawl and fight[211]
Let Cads delight with fists to fight[212]
Let Frenchmen fight with kick and bite[215]
Whigs in their cosy berths agree, 1849[210]
Birds in their little nests agree[211]
Oh, Marcus! You should never let[211]
On a Fracas at Newmarket, 1883[211]
To a Policeman[212]
When Bishops, who in wealth abound[216]
’Tis the voice of the Sluggard[212]
’Tis the moan of old Louis (of France), 1823[212]
’Tis the voice of the lobster[212]
’Tis the voice of the Czar, 1879[213]
’Tis the voice of the Rinker[213]
’Tis the voice of Britannia[213]
’Tis the voice of the glutton[213]
’Tis the voice of the oyster[213]
’Twas the voice of the “Special”[213]
A Parody from Funny Folks[212]
The Wise one and the Foolish[213]
Whene’er I take my walks abroad[214]
Do.   do. in London Streets[214]
The Irish Landlord’s Song[214]
I cannot take my walks abroad[214]
Another Version, by Shirley Brooks[215]
Whene’er abroad we take our walks (in Covent Garden)[215]
Abroad in the Boroughs[215]
How sweet a thing it is to dwell[216]
Why should I relieve my neighbour[216]
A Paraphrase on Dr. Watts’ Distich on the Study of Languages, 1792[216]

Bret Harte.

Dickens in Camp.