A COCKNEY ON A GREAT COLLECTION.
[We are informed that Prince Lucien Bonaparte's unique library of some 25,000 volumes, included "a complete set of Punch" preserved presumably by the Prince for the specimens of "Cockney dialect which it contains.">[
Jest fancy a Prince Bonyparty sech nuts upon patter and slang!
Proves a Prince may be fly to wot's wot, and of chat as is chat 'ave the 'ang.
Lor bless yer, this Lucyun, 'e knowed all the cackles as ever was chinned.
I'll wager as 'e wos aweer as a Billingsgit Pheasant is finned!
He'd got Solomon's song in Tyke lingo! A pity 'e didn't know me!
I'd ha' run it off into back slang, and ha' done it most willing and free.
'Cos a Prince and a Frenchy at that, as appreshiates Punch, and my patter,
Is a precious sight smarter than some "Cockney" criticks, and that's wot's the matter!