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.”