Only this—only this—this that once you did me—
Only this—I’ll do you now—I’ll do you now—
I’ll do you now!
From Sketches in Prose and Verse, by F. B. Doveton, author of Snatches of Song. London: Sampson Low & Co., Fleet Street. 1886. (This amusing volume also contains a number of Parodies on the poems of Moore, Alfred Tennyson, Campbell, Hood, Byron, Coleridge, Southey, Poe, and Swinburne.)
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My Mother bids Me Find an Heir.
My mother bids me find an heir
And give up Cousin Hugh,
Who came so often to the square,
Poor cornet—Horse Guards Blue.