It was safe there all the same.
Punch. June 14, 1851.
Lord Brougham’s Dream.
“The foul, the false charge, that I have changed a
single opinion.”—Vicar of Bray.
I dreamt that I dined in Conservative halls,
With Peel and the Duke at my side;
That I went like their shadow, to morning calls,
To concerts, the club, or the ride.
And seldom or never to meet, did I seem,