King Mensa cried, “We’re diddled!”
And his council cried, “Alack!”
So they sued for peace right humbly,
And said they’d been in fun,
And sent five more umbrellas
To be kept at Kensington!
Judy. March 16, 1881.
How Horatius kept the Bridge.
Such is the title of a burlesque account of the events described in Macaulay’s poem, which appeared in “The Blue” a small magazine conducted by the scholars of Christ’s Hospital, (the Blue-coat school) London. It was afterwards reprinted in Gleanings from “The Blue,” S. Austin and Sons, Hertford. 1881.
The burlesque is in prose, but a few parody verses are given in it to illustrate the narrative: