An uninteresting political parody of the “The fine old English Gentleman” in eight verses, is contained in a small pamphlet entitled Blasts from Bradlaugh’s own Trumpet, published by Houlston and Sons, London, about 1883.
It commences thus:—
I sing a brand new song which may old faiths eradicate,
About the B. whose buzzing has been heard so much of late,
Whose craze it is to scheme to be Protector of the State,
And thinks that being bulky is the same as being great,
A much mistaken demagogue,
Of the self-anointed line.
The Christmas number of The World for 1885 had a parody commencing,
“A good old English gentleman, all of the olden school,