As Byron has it, "diddled," long ago.

Thus reascending on our modern stage,

As through a "trap," thou mak'st us boys again;

The ardent spirit of thy reverend age,

Of George the Fourth revives the splendid reign.

For well do we remember how thy fame

Accustomed was our fathers to amuse:

And what a by-word was thy complex name,

Then daily ventilated in the news.

Then ventilated:—was not that enough