In vain will assume to deride it.
It does not fear satire or scathe
From Minos, though knowing and nobby,
And certainly won't pin its faith,
To the Bench's pet fetish, the Bobby.
To make him an oracle's coming it strong,
For even a Constable sometimes goes wrong.
Our Newton's "Principia" too,
Punch rejects in a fashion emphatic.
No, Shallow, my boy, they won't do,