On seeing the Speaker asleep in his chair, during one of the Debates of the first Reformed Parliament.
Sleep, Mr. Speaker, ’tis surely fair,
If you mayn’t in your bed that you should in your chair;
Louder and longer now they grow,
Tory and Radical, aye and no,
Talking by night, and talking by day,
Sleep, Mr. Speaker, sleep while you may.
Sleep, Mr. Speaker; slumber lies
Light and brief on a speaker’s eyes.
Fielden or Finn in a minute or two