“I saw HER at the Masquerade,” along with Nimming Ned,
Achieve those feats, where fingers light work nimbler than the head.
I saw HER too at All-Max once (not Almack’s in the west,)
“’Twas in the crowd,”—her voice was loud: I must’nt tell the rest.
I saw HER at the “Central Court,” (it gave me quite a shock),
Surrounded by her body guard, she stood within the dock.
And then I heard a little man, with solemn voice proclaim,
(’Twas rue to me, and wormwood too), that Alias was her name.
From George Cruikshank’s Comic Almanack, 1836.