We praise you as charming, and ask if you mean
To give up burlesque and play Tragedy Queen?
The Mashers will cry, o’er this doleful event,
“The charm of her presence was felt when she went!”—
Our Kate!
Punch. June 16, 1883.
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Lays of a Lover.
(A Roasting, after Browning.)
Oh, to be out of London now that no one’s here,