As wonderful as these?

Why should you doubt a legend

Because ’tis nearer home?

Or can no fables please you

But those that come from Rome?

This parody, which consists of 25 verses, is to be found in Rival Rhymes in Honour of Burns, by Ben Trovato. London. Routledge and Co. 1857.

This book is generally ascribed to Samuel Lover, the novelist.


Lay of Modern England.

Augustus Smith, of Scilly,