He stood in his stockings just four foot ten;
And he ask’d, as he held the door on the swing,
“Pray, did your Lordship please to ring?”
My Lord Tomnoddy he raised his head,
And thus to Tiger Tim he said,
“Malibran’s dead, Duvernay’s fled,
Taglioni has not yet arrived in her stead;
Tiger Tim, come, tell me true,
What may a Nobleman find to do?”—