Dr. Lardner’s Cyclopædia.
My name is Lardner, in St. Paul’s Churchyard
My Cyclopædia sells, a weighty book
Whose constant pages do increase my store
And keep their editor, myself, at home!
For I was born a janius, and I longed
For some two thousand pounds per annum, and
My book soon gave what Gower Street denied.
From The National Omnibus, May 27, 1831.