(Tears! such as you’ve heard Shakespeare say,
A Bagpipe’s drone WILL bring away.)
And ever and anon he’d hum
The Giant’s Song of Fe Fa Fum.
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The most complete parody is however to be found in Posthumous Parodies and other Pieces, published anonymously in London in 1814. Unfortunately it deals with the politics and politicians of the day, and many of the allusions are of no general interest at the present time, so that only a few extracts need be quoted:
The Aspirants:
An Ode for Music.
When George our Prince, first sway’d the land,
While yet Restriction cramp’d his hand,