Who lets you scribblers suck his branes

An’ gits a quid, praps, for his panes?

R! Sich the lot (’ow ’ard it seams!)

The loly, lophty lot of Jeames.

The Pall Mall Gazette. January 30, 1886.

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The Ballad of a Rural Pleceman,

by “whackery.”

Tory gents of Lincoln county,

Lincoln famed for minster grand,