What act could be done? Well, it wouldn’t surprise one
To know that they did a very unwise one,
But now in their favour, there’s this to be said,
They thought better of it, and you may have read,
That my Lords and Lord Bobby—went home to bed.
From Grins and Groans, Social and Political. Published by W. Swan Sonnenschein & Co., about 1882.
The Lord of Intrigue.
Pollaky sat in his oaken chair,
Carte de visite and letter lay there,
Princely coronet, lordly crest,