Who don’t care if wine comes from China or Cadiz,
And simper alike over venison and veau!
We like a companion who knows what she’s eating,
(What chance for your tastes if she’s none of her own?)
So hip, hip, hurrah, for November that’s seating
A Sovereign like this on the Mansion House throne.
Shirley Brooks, 1856.
Jamaica.
(Written in 1866, when Governor Eyre was being prosecuted for his excessive severity in suppressing the negro insurrection in Jamaica.)