Though in comedy vague my idea of fun,

Yet soon on the boards I shall be number one,

Said I, &c.

I always will keep my peculiar stride,

Said I, &c.,

In Hamlet, Charles, Richelieu, and Romeo beside,

Said I, &c.

With pre-Raffaelite Ellen my woes to assuage,

In London be burlesqued, in Scotland the rage,

We triumph on every American stage.