Dancing round them pale spectres are seen;
Their liquor is blood, and this horrible stave
They howl,—“To the health of Alonzo the Brave,
“And his consort, the false Imogine!”
M. G. Lewis.
It is somewhat unusual for an author to parody himself, but in a volume entitled “Tales of Wonder” written and collected by M. G. Lewis, Esq., London 1801, he inserted “Alonzo the Brave,” with a parody written by himself. Of this, he remarked, that the idea of making an apothecary of the Knight, and a brewer of the baron, and some few of the lines, were taken from a parody which appeared in one of the newspapers under the title of “Pil-Garlic the Brave, and Brown Celestine.”
It is to be regretted that he did not mention the author of the latter parody, nor the paper in which it originally appeared.
Giles Jollup the Grave and Brown Sally Green.
A Doctor so prim, and a sempstress so tight,
Hob-a-nobb’d in some right maresquin,