They said, “It served him right.”

But long at our wine-parties,

We’ll remember how, like bricks,

Stout Noddy kept the Crescent,

In Eighteen-forty-six!

Punch. April 11, 1846.


Marcus Curtius, the Honest Lawyer.

(A Lay of Ancient Rome.)

Wilt hear how Marcus Curtius, that lawyer true and hold,