Of will, wit, tact, our Party have no more!
Punch. February 5, 1887.
SONG.
On seeing the Speaker asleep in his Chair, in one of the Debates of the first Reformed Parliament.
(Parody of the well-known Lullaby in Guy Mannering.)
“Sleep, Mr. Speaker, ’tis surely fair,
If you mayn’t in your bed that you should in your chair;
Louder and longer now they grow,
Tory and Radical, Aye and No,