Leave your sickly painful couch,

Every bath shall make you stronger,

Nervous sufferers try the Douche.

From Health and Pleasure, or Malvern Punch, by J. B. Oddfish. (London. Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., 1865.)

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“POLY.”

(A new ballad of the Fleet, sung by a British Tar àpropos of the “Polyphemus.”)

Do you want to know the ugliest craft

That ever put from port?

Well that’s the Poly, the steel ram’d Poly,