If thou art able to divine
Return of pow’r to me?”
And how should I thy search assist,
Thou very reverend man?
Since thou would’st serve her Majesty,
And I’m Republican!”[85]
From “They are Five” by W. E. G. London. David Bogue, 1880.
The Rime of the Ancient Rinking Man, is the title of the first parody contained in Idylls of the Rink, by A. W. Mackenzie. London. 1876.
It is an ancient beggar man,
And he stoppeth one of three.