And makes an appeal which few folks can resist,
For treating the children, oh, won’t it seem queer,
If Jewbilee Lawson[81] is not made a peer?
Will Didcott be knighted for bossing the show?
’Twould be English, you know! Quite English, you know!
From The Reign of Error. London: J. Cheetham. 1887.
Quite English.
When the Comte de Paris recently issued a manifesto to the French nation, few sensible people gave it a serious thought, for Bourbons and Buonapartes are as much played out in France, as the Stuarts are in this country. Punch (September 24, 1887) ridiculed the pretensions of this would-be constitutional king, representing him as masquerading in John Bull’s garments, a world too wide for his shrunk shanks, and singing:—
Here I come in complete Constitutional coat