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

George IV. at Madame Tussaud's without his grand Coronation Robes.

I DREAMT THAT I SLEPT AT MADAME TUSSAUD'S.

I.

I dreamt that I sle-ept at Madame Tussaud's,

With Cut-throats and Kings by my si-i-de;

And that all the Wax-figures in tho-ose abodes

At Midnight became vivifi-i-ied.

I dreamt William the Four-urth sat dow-own to smoke

With Collins, who aimed at his eye,

And I a-also dre-eamt King Hal—what a joke!—