The Church-wardens sit round the treat they don’t pay,
Their cares all with ’bacco beguil’d,
They drink out of mugs newly form’d of bak’d clay,
Their liquor is ale, and this whimsical lay
They sing—“Here’s a health to fair Peggy the gay,
And the false Roger Gray and his child.”
There is another Parody in the same volume commencing:—
“A Bulldog so fierce, and a Spaniel so meek.”
In Volume V. (1801) of the same collection there is an imitation of Lewis’s style, entitled “The Little Green Man,” and in Volume IX. (for 1805) a parody of “Alonzo the Brave,” commencing:—