Yet youthful Lord, and stripling Duke,
To beg for salt, without rebuke,
At Montem always were allowed:—
What argument can answer this?
No more—where beggary is bliss,
’Tis folly to be proud.
Punch. December, 1846.
Ode on a Close Prospect of Eton College.
(By a Gray-Headed Wet Bob.)