“Oh, the duchess must fall in our trap to-day.”
While his clients with awe
As such schemes they saw,
Said, “Pollaky’s sharper than Hades, you know.”
Never, I ween,
Was a subtler seen,
Concerned in divorce, or elopement, or league,
Than love’s autocrat, Pollaky, lord of intrigue.
From Benjamin D——. His Little Dinner. 1876.