The Comic Almanack, Volume 1 / An Ephemeris in Jest and Earnest, Containing Merry Tales, Humerous Poetry, Quips, and Oddities

by William Makepeace Thackeray; Gilbert Abbott À Beckett; Henry Mayhew; Horace Mayhew; Albert Smith

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Good judges in the law are they

Of Sherry, Claret, and Tokay,

And when their lordships deign to joke,

And banish Lyttleton and Coke,

They order that the best old Port

Shall henceforth be a rule of court;

That care shall be the fate of asses,

Their only circuits be of glasses;