To join some Cockney Epping Hunt
Than lead a Chevy Chase!
God save the Queen, and bless the land
With plenty, joy, and peace;
And grant henceforth that foul debate
’Twixt gentlemen may cease!
Punch. May 30, 1885.
LORD BATEMAN.
One of the best known of our old Ballads is Lord Beichan, or Buchan. This is corrupted in the modern English form to Lord Bateman; the ballad commences thus: