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,