No further seek his merits to disclose,
Nor draw his frailties from their dread abode;
(There they, like many a lawyer’s, now repose)
The bosom of his Father and his God.
MATTHEW G. LEWIS.
(Concluded from page [143].)
Several parodies of “Alonzo the Brave and the Fair Imogine” are given in The Spirit of the Public Journals, of which the following is the best. It originally appeared in The True Briton, and was reprinted in Vol. III. of The Spirit of the Public Journals. for 1799.
Peggy the Gay, and the Bold Roger Gray.