Deep in the roaring pit she plunged to endless night.
Falkland.
The Morning Post. December 8, 1809.
This parody was also included in The Covent Garden Journal, 1810, which contains the history of the notorious O.P. Riots at Covent Garden Theatre, when John Philip Kemble was manager.
The Union.
[A celebrated Debating Society in Cambridge, composed entirely of Members of the University, where political subjects were discussed, which the Master of St. John’s suppressed during his Vice-Chancellorship in 1817; on which occasion the following Parody on The Bard, by Mr. Marmaduke Lawson, M.P., for Boroughbridge, and Fellow of Magdalen College, made its appearance.]
I.
“Ruin seize thee, senseless prig!
Confusion on thy “optics” wait!