And though never crossing the confines of charity,
Still, in your moments of mammoth hilarity,
Who, without showing the widest disparity
Vies in vulgarity, Vernon with you?
Once Sir Ughtred was minded to frown,
Till this remark broke his prudery down—
“Is it lave jollity
All to the ‘quality,’
Cannot we masses be mountebanks too?”
Here’s a health to you, Vernon avick!