And the principal journal can stoop to a lie;
While lucre and puffs to support it combine
(Though Low and Macmillan adopt the same line)?
’Tis the clime of the west, ’tis the land of a Stowe:
Can ye marvel her libels have angered us so?
Oh! false as all things merely written to sell
Are the statements they make, and the tales which they tell!
Punch and Judy (London) February 12, 1870.
——:o:——
TO THOMAS MOORE.