Oh don’t I just, Lord, I could walk and walk,
For ever so long, to hear you talk and talk.
“The very latest edition of the Lady of Lyons,” a Burlesque Extravaganza, in one act, by H. J. Byron, was produced at the Strand Theatre, London, on July 11th, 1859, in which Miss M. Oliver, Miss Charlotte Saunders, and Messrs. H. J. Turner, James Rogers and J. Clarke took the leading parts. Miss C. Saunders, as Claude Melnotte, spoke the following parody:—
Pauline.—Describe to me again, your highness, do
That Crystal Palace you would take me to.
Claude.—If thou would’st have me paint—
Pauline.—I would—be quick!
Claude.—(aside) Then I must lay it on extremely thick,
(aloud) The home to which could love fulfil its prayers,