damns

While Butterworth's spirit, upraised from your eyes,

dare cast them back again.

1 A great part of the income of Joanna Southcott arose from the Seals of the Lord's protection which she sold to her followers.

2 Mrs. Anne Lee, the "chosen vessel" of the Shakers, and "Mother of all the children of regeneration."

3 Toad Lane, in Manchester, where Mother Lee was born. In her "Address to Young Believers," she says, that "it is a matter of no importance with them from whence the means of their deliverance come, whether from a stable in Bethlehem, or from Toad Lane, Manchester."

shall soar,

With a long tail of rubbish behind, to the skies!

AN INCANTATION. SUNG BY THE BUBBLE SPIRIT. Air. Come with me, and we will go Where the rocks of coral grow. COME with me and we will blow Lots of bubbles as we go; Bubbles bright as ever Hope Drew from fancy or from soap;

Bright as e'er the South Sea sent
From its frothy element !
Come with me and we will blow
Lots of bubbles as we go.
Mix the lather, Johnny Wilks,
Thou, who rhym'st so well to bilks;1
Mix the lather-who can be
Fitter for such tasks than thee,
Great M. P. for Sudsbury!

Now the frothy charm is ripe,
Puffing Peter, bring thy pipe,
Thou whom ancient Coventry
Once so dearly loved that she
Knew not which to her was sweeter,
Peeping Tom or Puffing Peter;
Puff the bubbles high in air,
Puff thy best to keep them there.

Bravo, bravo, Peter More!
Now the rainbow humbugs 3 soar,
Glittering all with golden hues
Such as haunt the dreams of Jews;-
Some reflecting mines that lie
Under Chili's glowing sky,
Some, those virgin pearls that sleep
Cloistered in the southern deep;
Others, as if lent a ray

From the streaming Milky Way,
Glistening o'er with curds and whey
From the cows of Alderney.

Now's the moment who shall first
Catch the bubbles ere they burst?
Run, ye Squires, ye Viscounts, run,
Brogden, Teynham, Palmerston;-
John Wilks junior runs beside ye!
Take the good the knaves provide ye! *
See, with upturned eyes and hands,
Where the Shareman,5 Brogden,
stands,

4

1 Strong indications of character may be sometimes traced in the rhymes to names. Marvell thought so when he wrote

"Sir Edward Sutton, The foolish Knight who rhymes to mutton." 2 The Member, during a long period, for Coventry.

3 An humble imitation of one of our modern

poets, who, in a poem against War, after describing the splendid habiliments of the soldier, thus apostrophizes him "thou rainbow ruffian!" 4 "Lovely Thais sits beside thee:

Take the good the Gods provide thee." 5 So called by a sort of Tuscan dulcification of the ch, in the word "Chairman."

A goodly man with an eye so merry,
I knew it was our Foreign Secretary,1
Who there at his ease did sit and smile,
Like Waterton on his crocodile;2
Cracking such jokes, at every motion,

As made the Turtle squeak with glee, And own they gave him a lively notion Of what his forced-meat balls would be.

So, on the Sec. in his glory went,
Over that briny element,
Waving his hand as he took farewell
With graceful air, and bidding me tell
Inquiring friends that the Turtle and he
Were gone on a foreign embassy
To soften the heart of a Diplomat,
Who is known to dote upon verdant fat,
And to let admiring Europe see,
That calipash and calipee

Are the English forms of Diplomacy.

At length as secrets travel fast,

And devils, whether he or she,
Are sure to be found out at last,
The affair got wind most rapidly.

The Press, the impartial Press, that snubs
Alike a fiend's or an angel's capers ·
Miss Paton's soon as Beelzebub's
Fired off a squib in the morning
papers:

"We warn good men to keep aloof

"From a grim old Dandy seen about "With a fire-proof wig and a cloven hoof

"Thro' a neat-cut Hoby smoking out."

Now, the Devil being a gentleman, Who piques himself on well-bred dealings,

You may guess, when o'er these lines he

ran,

How much they hurt and shockt his feelings.

Away he posts to a Man of Law,

And 't would make you laugh could you have seen 'em,

As paw shook hand, and hand shook

paw, And 't was "hail, good fellow, well met," between 'em.