But I shall flourish heroine at play,
Unhurt by fears of war with France or Spain,
Prussia’s defeat, or Brunswick’s overthrow.
Another parody has Love instead of Play as the leading idea:—
“Ovid, it must be so—thou reason’st well;
Else whence this pleasing pain—these tender doubts—
This longing after something unpossess’t?”
Etc., etc., etc.
A long political parody of the Senate scene in “Cato” appeared in Figaro in London, December 14, 1833, with an illustration by Robert Seymour. It dealt with William IV. and his Ministers, and has no present interest whatever.