To call in all his old neighbors with bagpipe and drum,
With good cheer enough to furnish every room,
And old liquor able to make a cat speak, and man dumb;
Like an old courtier of the queen’s
And the queen’s old courtier.
The Old and the New Christmas.
From London Punch, Dec. 24, 1881.
A contrast is drawn between this old courtier of the queen’s and the young courtier of the king’s, with all his new-fangled notions, and especially
With a new fashion, when Christmas is drawing on,
On a new journey to London we must straight all begone