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

Lady Macbeth and Banquo having twigged it,

First she took a very leetle sup,—

He fairly swigged it;

And so between them both, alas!

Lady Macbeth and Banquo mopped it up,

And hid the glass!

Higgs, who all this time

Had been upon the stage,—

In that great scene where Macbeth's urged to crime

By those foul witches,—