Punch. January 9, 1886.
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Ye Papyrus Roll-Scroll of ye Sette of Odd Volumes[138]
Mr. J. Brodie-Innes, Master of the Rolls of the Sette of Odd Volumes, has a great talent for Ingoldsby versification. On May 4, 1888, he read a paper at Willis’s Rooms bearing the above title, in which the peculiarities of the members were graphically, comically, but withal genially hit off. The opening lines ran thus:—
Some fifty centuries, more or less
Over this planet have pass’d, I guess,
Since a monarch there lived of wond’rous fame
In ancient Egypt, whose mighty name,
Known to all both near and far,
Was Mr. Pharaoh Rameses Ra.