Lars Porsenna.
This amusing parody originally appeared in College Rhymes, 1855, but has since been issued in pamphlet form (price sixpence), by Messrs. T. Shrimpton and Son, Oxford, and has had a large sale.
Adolphus Smalls, of Boniface,
By all the powers he swore,
That though he had been plucked three times
He would be plucked no more.
By all the powers he swore it,
And put on “Coaches” three,
And many a livelong night he read,
With sported oak, and towell’d head,