And the news of the evening, as you will see,

Is that the Commons will not agree.”

Then the Marquis Bobby jumped up in haste,

And he muttered a something that sounded like “baste.”

And something resembling “bate ’em;”

He felt that the fun wasn’t yet quite done,

Though he’d issued his “ultimatum.”

“Enough—call it done, my son of a gun—

I’ll show ’em a game ere with me they’ve done: