Did’st thou not hear the pother in the town
On Monday last, when Ramsgate to the fore,
Placed on thy brow its tributary crown,
And hailed thy patriarchal years, five score?
Here’s to thy long, long life, thou Hebrew hoary,
God’s blessing on thy head, Montefiore!
Botcher.
November, 1884.
On page 103 of “The Wit and Humour of Shirley Brooks” (Bradbury, Agnew & Co., 1883), there is a parody founded on Horace Smith’s “George Barnewell.” It was written in 1858 to ridicule “Soapy Sam,” Bishop Wilberforce, it is quite out of date now, and of no interest, except to some possible historian of theological controversies.
