(That she'll turn up a trump is the hope of the nation),
By a whole pack of outlandish knaves who are suing,
Is sorely beset, for she shrinks from their wooing.
Each holds out a circle in which to entrap her,
And ev'ry one hopes that he shall kidnap her.
But occult operations behind the state curtain
Shew an Elph, that makes their success very uncertain.
Now, look to the left, and you'll see that Egalité,
That awful French thing, wants to pull down Regality;
And, much to the horror of all Christian people,