There was another short parody of the same song in The Weekly Dispatch of August 24, 1884. It also was directed against the House of Lords, and concluded:—
“So bend and mend, proud peers, or end
In signal dissolution.”
The New Vicar of Bray.
(Mr. Gladstone Loquitur.)
In good King William’s peaceful reign, when loyalty no harm meant,
A zealous Tory then was I, and showed no small discernment;
To teach the crowd I never failed, that Tories were appointed
To save the King and Church and State from rebels unannointed.