Ah me! the green willow must be my garland.
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[27] Mr. Goschen proposed to reduce the Income Tax from 8d. to 7d. in the £, and to take off 4d. in the lb. from the duty on tobacco, a concession from which the consumer will not reap the smallest benefit.
[28] On the boot tree. This is a poetical intimation that the singer does not intend going out for a walk.
[29] A red star affixed to the frame, or picture, denotes that the picture is sold.—Academy Catalogue.
[30] Louis Phillippe.
[31] Napoleon III.
[32] Alluding to the complete and sudden change in the political creed of The Daily Telegraph. (London.)
[33] The Duke of Marlborough.
[34] “Old King Cole” as he was familiarly known, was a fussy little old gentleman who founded the clique, notorious as the “South Kensington Gang,” which for the last twenty years has enriched itself at the expense of the nation.