On the loathing, the loathing I felt in those days,

When I lived in that cot by the sea,

In that cot with my Aunt Magee.

Punch’s Almanac. 1883.


“W. E. G.”

’Tis not so much as a year ago,

In this kingdom by the sea,

That a statesman was at the top of the House

Known as old W. G.;