Punch, 1848.
There was a paraphrase of “Auld Lane Syne” in the second volume of “The Comic Offering,” for 1832, and a long, but very dull, parody of “Willie brewed a peck o’ Maut” in Punch of November 29, 1884, apropos of Bismarck and the Congo question. Funny Folks, for June 14, 1879, had a few lines on a young man who kissed a girl on Peckham Rye, and was fined for so doing. They ran thus:—
If a body meet a body
Coming through the Rye,
Can a body kiss a body?
Yes—if no one’s nigh.
Every bobby has his hobby,
And some like to spy
In a way distinctly “snobby,”