Safer sport than making war; After this, we'll try thy hand, Mantua-making Ferdinand, "To Panurge was assigned the Lairdship of Salmagundi, which was yearly worth 6,789,106,789 ryals, besides the revenue of the Locusts and Periwinkles, amounting one year with another to the value of 2,435,768," &c. &c.RABELAIS. "HURRA! hurra!" I heard them say, The Salmagundians once were rich, From their Periwinkles larger grew; 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 and 10, And proved themselves most wealthy men! So, on they went, a prosperous crew, The people wise, the rulers cleverAnd God help those, like me and you, Who dared to doubt (as some now do) That the Periwinkle Revenue Would thus go flourishing on forever. His Lordship's demand for fresh affidavits was incessant. • Accented as in Swift's line "Not so a nation's revenues are paid." "Hurra! hurra!" I heard them say, But folks at length began to doubt And lost by Locusts ten times more! Of all the beasts that ever were born, NEW CREATION OF PEERS. BATCH THE FIRST. "His 'prentice han' He tried on man, And then he made the lasses." 1827. "AND now," quoth the Minister, (cased of his "No-ask it not, ask it not, dear Doctor H-+ panics, And ripe for each pastime the summer affords,) "Having had our full swing at destroying me chanics, "By way of set-off, let us make a few Lords. ""Tis pleasant—while nothing but mercantile fractures, "Some simple, some compound, is dinn'd in our ears "To think that, though robb'd of all coarse manu factures, "We still have our fine manufacture of Peers; f-rd "If naught but a Peerage can gladden thy life, "And young Master H-lf-rd as yet is too small for't, "Sweet Doctor, we'll make a she Peer of thy wife. "Next to bearing a coronet on our own brows, "Is to bask in its light from the brows of an other; 1 Created Lord F-rnb-gh. 1 |