He returned to his friends, who’d just helped him to dine,
And laughed at the dupes who found banquet and wine.
From The Spirit of the Age Newspaper for 1828.
The Right Hon. R. B. Sheridan here referred to, the celebrated wit, orator, and dramatist, was continually in debt, and as, in addition to being thriftless and extravagant, he was intemperate, his once handsome features became, in the later years of his life, so bloated, distorted, and discoloured, that he seemed but a hideous caricature of his former self.
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The Shy Bo-Peep.
(A sea-side fact.)
The shy Bo-Peep to the sea is gone,
In a bathing frock you’ll find her;
A swimming belt she has girded on,