How Smalls, of Boniface, went in,
And, actually got through.
Anonymous.
Several imitations of Horatius occur in early volumes of Punch, one as far back as December 4, 1847, entitled the “Mustering of the Hobbies, a Lay of Modern Babylon,” refers to politicians many of whom are dead, and to events most of which are now forgotten. Another, dated January 26, 1856, “The Sibylline Books, a Lay of Ancient Rome for the consideration of modern Russia,” is also quite out of date. It contained certain advice which Mr. Punch considered advisable to address to the Emperor of Russia.
When Macaulay was created a baron, it was practically a life peerage, as he was unmarried and unlikely to marry, Punch had some verses congratulating him on the event, and referring to Mr. Baron Parke, who, in 1856, had been raised to the peerage as Lord Wensleydale, with the usual succession to his heirs male, who did not exist, and never came into being.
How Titus Manlius Macauleius
was made a Patrician.
The Consul Palmerstonius
Hath ta’en down his Debrett,
And o’er its storied pages