Aye, my Alfred, there you hit
The portrait-painter's function to a hair;
And here I hit the essential inner Joe.
And so he'll live. But "ever at his best,
And fullest?" Humph! His Brummagem retinue
Will scarce acknowledge that. Some call him "Judas,"
But that is rude, and leads to shameful rows.
Chaff is one thing and insolence another;
E'en caricature may pass, so that its impulse
Be humorous not malevolent; but coarse spleen,