“While exil’d from home, all my speeches seem vain;

Oh give me my old House of Commons again.

The ‘cheers’ and the ‘hears,’ once my own I could call

Give me them, or that sack of wool, dearer than all,

Reid, Reid,” &c.

Punch. April 14, 1846.


Parody for Puseyites.

Though crosses and candles we play with at home,

To go the whole gander, there’s no place like Rome;