The Rime of the Ancient Waggonere, in four parts. This parody first appeared in Blackwood’s Magazine, February, 1819, it was republished in vol. 2 of J. S. Moore’s Pictorial Book of Ballad Poetry (London, 1849), and again in William Maginn’s Miscellanies (London, 1885.)
The Cockney Mariner, in seven parts, by Gilbert Abbott à Beckett. This appeared in The Almanack of the Month. Vol. 1, 1846.
It is a Cockney Mariner,
And he stoppeth one of three;
“By thy dreadnought coat, button’d up to the throat,
Now what do you want with me?”
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The Rime of the New-made Baccalere, in seven parts. Oxford: J. Vincent. This clever parody (31 pages 8vo.) was first published, anonymously, in 1841, it has since been reprinted, and may be obtained from Mr. Vincent, High Street, Oxford. Like the original poem, which it follows very closely, it consists of seven parts, and commences thus:
It was a new-made Baccalere,
One freshman stops of three,