If you take up the paper and read it across.
(INTER ARIA DEMI LOQUI.)
Here’s the Times, apropos,
And so,
With your patience, I’ll show
What I mean, by perusing a passage or two.
(ARIA.)
“Hem! Mr. George Robins is anxious to tell,
In very plain prose, he’s instructed to sell”—
“A vote for the county”—“packed neatly in straw”—