The Comic Almanack, Volume 2 / 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

On Windmill Hill, to warble "Faithless Emma."[^[5]]

But as, in La Sonnambula, the man

In love sings, "Still so gently o'er me stealing,"

Although I combat with it all I can,

I find that "memory will bring back the feeling."

But love, at any time, lasts but a span;

And so, in "spite of all my grief revealing,"

I will revisit Rosherville's domain,

And drown in "tea with cresses"[^[6]] all my pain.

[1]. Nathan, Lord Rosherville, and Baron of Kennington, has been immortalized in Punch. His Terpsichorean ingenuity is remarkable. Perhaps his "Polka Hornpipe, in chain armour and handcuffs," is his most remarkable dance.