I’m sure you’ll never find them act,
Like our old English stage.
A man whose passion’s crost, is sore,
Then pray excuse my pet;
I ne’er was overturn’d before,
But now am quite upset.
From The Comic Latin Grammar. By Paul Prendergast (Percival Leigh). London. D. Bogue. 1848.
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Just Before the Wedding, Mother.
Parody on “Just before the Battle, Mother.”