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PREFACE.

INDEX.

MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS.

TO CHLOE.

TO A FLY,

MAN MAY BE HAPPY.. PETER PINDAR.

ADDRESS TO THE TOOTHACHE.

THE PIG.

SNUFF.. ROBERT SOUTHEY.

WRITTEN AFTER SWIMMING FROM SESTOS TO ABYDOS.

THE LISBON PACKET.. BYRON.

TO FANNY.. THOMAS MOORE

YOUNG JESSICA.. THOMAS MOORE.

RINGS AND SEALS.. THOMAS MOORE.

NETS AND CAGES.. THOMAS MOORE.

SALAD.. SYDNEY SMITH.

MY LETTERS.. R. HARRIS BARHAM.

THE POPLAR.. R. HARRIS BARHAM.

SPRING.

ODE.

SCHOOL AND SCHOOL-FELLOWS.. W. MACKWORTH PRAED.

THE VICAR.. W. MACKWORTH PRAED

THE BACHELOR'S CANE-BOTTOMED CHAIR.. W. M. THACKERAY

STANZAS TO PALE ALE.. PUNCH.

"CHILDREN MUST BE PAID FOR.". PUNCH.

TO THE LADY IN THE CHEMISETTE WITH BLACK BUTTONS.. N. P. WILLIS.

COME OUT, LOVE.. N. P. WILLIS.

THE WHITE CHIP HAT.. N. P. WILLIS.

YOU KNOW IF IT WAS YOU. N. P. WILLIS.

THE DECLARATION.. N. P. WILLIS.

LOVE IN A COTTAGE.. N. P. WILLIS.

TO HELEN IN A HUFF.. N. P. WILLIS

THE HEIGHT OF THE RIDICULOUS.. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.

THE BRIEFLESS BARRISTER.. A BALLAD.. JOHN G. SAXE.

VENUS OF THE NEEDLE.

NARRATIVE

TAKE THY OLD CLOAK ABOUT THEE. [OLD BALLAD, QUOTED BY SHAKSPEARE, IN OTHELLO.]. PERCY RELIQUES

KING JOHN AND THE ABBOT.. [AN OLD ENGLISH BALLAD—LONG VERY POPULAR.]. PERCY RELIQUES

THE BAFFLED KNIGHT, OR LADY'S POLICY. [A VERY FAVORITE ANCIENT BALLAD.]. PERCY RELIQUES

TRUTH AND FALSEHOOD.. A TALE.. MATTHEW PRIOR.

FLATTERY.. A FABLE.. SIR CHARLES HANBURY WILLIAMS.

THE PIG AND MAGPIE.. PETER PINDAR.

ADVICE TO YOUNG WOMEN,. OR, THE ROSE AND STRAWBERRY.. PETER PINDAR

ECONOMY.. PETER PINDAR.

THE COUNTBY LASSES.. PETER PINDAR.

THE PILGRIMS AND THE PEAS.. PETER PINDAR.

ON THE DEATH OF A FAVORITE CAT,. DROWNED IN A TUB OF GOLDFISHES.. THOMAS GRAY.

THE RETIRED CAT.. WILLIAM COWPER.

SAYING NOT MEANING.. WILLIAM BASIL WAKE.

JULIA.. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE.

A COCK AND HEN STORY.. ROBERT SOUTHEY

PART III.

PART IV.

THE DONKEY AND HIS PANNIERS.. THOMAS MOORE.

MISADVENTURES AT MARGATE.. A LEGEND OF JARVIS'S JETTY.. B. HARRIS BABHAM.

THE GHOST.. R. HARRIS BARHAM.

A LAY OF ST. GENGULPHUS.. R. HARRIS BARHAM

SIR RUPERT THE FEARLESS.. A LEGEND OF GERMANY.. R. HARRIS BARHAM

LOOK AT THE CLOCK.. R. HARRIS BARHAM.

THE BAGMAN'S DOG.. R. HARRIS BARHAM.

DAME FREDEGONDE.. WILLIAM AYTOUS.

THE KING OF BRENTFORD'S TESTAMENT.. W. MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

THE RETORT. GEORGE P. MORRIS

SATIRICAL

THE RABBLE: OR, WHO PAYS!. SAMUEL BUTLER.

THE CHAMELEON.. MATTHEW PRIOR.

MERRY ANDREW.. MATTHEW PRIOR.

JACK AND JOAN.. MATTHEW PRIOR.

THE PROGRESS OF POETRY. DEAN SWIFT

TWELVE ARTICLES.. DEAN SWIFT.

THE BEASTS' CONFESSION.. DEAN SWIFT

A NEW SIMILE FOR THE LADIES.. WITH USEFUL ANNOTATIONS,. DR. THOMAS SHERIDAN.

THE RAZOR SELLER.. PETER PINDAR.

THE SAILOR BOY AT PRAYERS.. PETER PINDAR.

BIENSEANCE. PETER PINDAR.

KINGS AND COURTIERS.. PETER PINDAR

PRAYING FOR RAIN.. PETER PINDAR

APOLOGY FOR KINGS. PETER PINDAR

ODE TO THE DEVIL.. PETER PINDAR.

THE KING OF SPAIN AND THE HORSE.. PETER PINDAR.

THE TENDER HUSBAND.. PETER PINDAR

THE SOLDIER AND THE VIRGIN MARY.. PETER PINDAR.

A KING OF FRANCE AND THE FAIR LADY. PETER PINDAR

THE EGGS.

THE ASS AND HIS MASTER.. FROM THE SPANISH OF YRIARTE.. G. H. DEVEREUX.

THE LOVE OF THE WORLD REPROVED; OR, HYPOCRISY DETECTED.. WILLIAM COWPER.

REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE,. NOT TO BE FOUND IN ANY OF THE BOOKS.. WILLIAM COWPER.

EPITAPH ON HOLY WILLIE

ADDRESS TO THE DEIL.. ROBERT BURNS.

THE DEVIL'S WALK ON EARTH.. ROBERT SOUTHEY.

CHURCH AND STATE.. THOMAS MOORE.

LYING.. THOMAS MOORE.

THE MILLENNIUM.. SUGGESTBD BY THE LATE WORK OF THE KEVEKEND MR. IRVING. "ON PROPHECY.". THOMAS MOORE.

THE LITTLE GRAND LAMA.. A FABLE FOR PRINCES ROYAL. THOMAS MOORE

ETERNAL LONDON.. THOMAS MOORE.

OF FACTOTUM NED.. THOMAS MOORE.

LETTERS. FROM MISS BIDDY FUDGE AT PARIS TO MISS DOROTHY—IN IRELAND. THOMAS MOORE.

THE LITERARY LADY.. RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN.

FAMILY POETRY.. R. HARRIS BARHAM

THE SUNDAY QUESTION.. THOMAS HOOD.

DEATH'S RAMBLE.. THOMAS HOOD.

THE BACHELOR'S DREAM.. THOMAS HOOD.

ON SAMUEL ROGERS.. LORD BYRON.

MY PARTNER.. W. MACKWORTH PRAED.

THE BELLE OF THE BALL.. W. MACKWORTH PRAED.

SORROWS OF WERTHER.. W. MAKEPEACE THACKERAY.

THE YANKEE VOLUNTEERS.. W. MAKEPEACE THACKERAY.

COURTSHIP AND MATRIMONY.. A POEM, IN TWO CANTOS.. PUNCH.

CONCERNING SISTERS-IN-LAW.. PUNCH.. I.

TO SONG-BIRDS ON A SUNDAY.. PUNCH.

THE FIRST SENSIBLE VALENTINE.. (ONE OF THE MOST ASTONISHING FRUITS OF THE EMIGRATION MANIA.). PUNCH.

A SCENE ON THE AUSTRIAN FRONTIER.. PUNCH.

ODE TO THE GREAT SEA-SERPENT ON HIS WONDERFUL REAPPEARANCE.. PUNCH.

THE FEAST OF VEGETABLES, AND THE FLOW OF WATER.. PUNCH.

KINDRED QUACKS.. PUNCH.

THE RAILWAY TRAVELER'S FAREWELL TO HIS FAMILY.. PUNCH.

A LETTER AND AN ANSWER.. PUNCH.

PAPA TO HIS HEIR,. A FAST MINOR.. PUNCH.

SELLING OFF AT THE OPERA HOUSE. A POETICAL CATALOGUE.. PUNCH.

WONDERS OF THE VICTORIAN AGE.. PUNCH.

TO THE PORTRAIT OF "A GENTLEMAN,". IN THE ATHENAEUM GALLERY.. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.

MY AUNT.. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.

COMIC MISERIES.. JOHN G. SAXE.

IDEES NAPOLEONIENNES.. WILLIAM AYTOUN.

THE LAY OF THE LOVER'S FRIEND. WILLIAM AYTOUN

PARODIES AND BURLESQUES

WINE.. JOHN GAY.

ODE ON SCIENCE.. DEAN SWIFT.

A LOVE SONG,. IN THE MODERN TASTE.. DEAN SWIFT.

BAUCIS AND PHILEMON.

A DESCRIPTION OF A CITY SHOWER. IN IMITATION OP VIRGIL'S GEORGICS.. DEAN SWIFT.

THE PROGRESS OF CURIOSITY;. OR A ROYAL VISIT TO WHITBKEAD'S BREWERY.. PETER PINDAR.

THE AUTHOR AND THE STATESMAN. [ADDRESSED BY FIELDING TO SIR ROBERT WALPOLE.]

INSCRIPTION

THE AMATORY SONNETS OF ABEL SHUFFLEBOTTOM.. ROBERT SOUTHEY.

THE LOVE ELEGIES OF ABEL SHUFFLEBOTTOM.. ROBERT SOUTHEY.

PLAY-HOUSE MUSINGS.. A BURLESQUE IMITATION OF COLERIDGE.—REJECTED ADDRESSES.. JAMES SMITH

DRURY'S DIRGE.. [BY LAUBA MATILDA.—REJECTED ADDRESSES.]. HORACE SMITH.

WHAT IS LIFE. BY "ONE OF THE FANCY.". BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE

FRAGMENTS.. [BY A FREE-LOVER.]. BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE, 1823

THE CONFESSION.. BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE

THE MILLING-MATCH BETWEEN ENTELLUS AND DARES.. TRANSLATED FROM THE FIFTH BOOK OF THE AENEID, BY ONE OF THE FANCY.. THOMAS MOORE.

RAISING THE DEVIL.. A LEGEND OF CORNELIUS AGRIPPA.. R. HARRIS BARHAM.

DOMESTIC POEMS.. THOMAS HOOD.. I.

ODE TO PERRY,. THE INVENTOR OF THE STEEL PEN.. THOMAS HOOD

A THEATRICAL CURIOSITY.. CRUIKSHANK'S OMNIBUS.

SIDDONS AND HER MAID.. W. S. LANDOR

THE SECRET SORROW.. PUNCH

SONG FOR PUNCH DRINKERS.. AFTER SCHILLER.. PUNCH.

THE SONG OF THE HUMBUGGED HUSBAND.. PUNCH.

TEMPERANCE SONG.. PUNCH.. AIR—FRIEND OF MY SOUL.

LINES

MADNESS.. PUNCH.

THE BANDIT'S FATE.. PUNCH.

LINES WRITTEN AFTER A BATTLE.. BY AN ASSISTANT SURGEON OF THE NINETEENTH NANKEENS.. PUNCH.

THE PHRENOLOGIST TO HIS MISTRESS.. PUNCH.

THE CHEMIST TO HIS LOVE.. PUNCH.

A BALLAD OF BEDLAM.. PUNCH.

STANZAS TO AN EGG.. [BY A SPOON.]. PUNCH.

A FRAGMENT.. PUNCH.

EATING SONG.. PUNCH.

THE SICK CHILD.. [BY THE HONOBABLE WILHELMINA SKEGGS.]. PUNCH.

THE IMAGINATIVE CRISIS.. PUNCH.

LINES TO BESSY.. [BY A STUDENT AT LAW.]. PUNCH.

MONODY ON THE DEATH OF AN ONLY CLIENT.. PUNCH.

LOVE ON THE OCEAN.. PUNCH.

PARODY FOR A REFORMED PARLIAMENT.. PUNCH.

THE WAITER.. PUNCH.

LINES FOR MUSIC.. PUNCH.

DRAMA FOR EVERY-DAY LIFE.. LUDGATE HILL.—A MYSTERY.. PUNCH.

JONES AT THE BARBER'S SHOP.. PUNCH.

THE SATED ONE.. [IMPROMPTU AFTER CHRISTMAS DINNER.]. PUNCH.

THE RAILWAY GILPIN.. PUNCH.

"A BOOK IN A BUSTLE.". A TRUE TALE OF THE WARWICK ASSIZES. BY THE GHOST OF CRABBE.. PUNCH.

STANZAS FOR THE SENTIMENTAL.. PUNCH.

COLLOQUY ON A CAB-STAND.. ADAPTED FOR THE BOUDOIR.. PUNCH.

THE SONG OF HIAWATHA.. AN ENGLISH CRITICISM. PUNCH.

COMFORT IN AFFLICTION.. WILLIAM AYTOUN.

THE BITER BIT.. WILLIAM AYTOUN.

A MIDNIGHT MEDITATION.. BY SIR E———- B———- L———-.. WILLIAM AYTOUN

THE DIRGE OF THE DRINKER.. BY W——— E——— A———, ESQ.. WILLIAM AYTOUN.

FRANCESCA DA RIMINI.. TO BON GAULTIER.. WILLIAM AYTOUN.

LOUIS NAPOLEON'S ADDRESS TO HIS ARMY. WILLIAM AYTOUN.

THE BATTLE OF THE BOULEVARD. WILLIAM AYTOUN.

PUFFS POETICAL.. WILLIAM AYTOUM

REFLECTIONS OF A PROUD PEDESTRIAN.. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES

EVENING.. BY A TAILOR.. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES

PHAETHON;. OR, THE AMATEUR COACHMAN.. JOHN G. SAXX

THE SCHOOL-HOUSE.. [AFTER GOLDSMITH.]. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

EPIGRAMMATIC

EPIGRAMS OF BEN JONSON.

EPIGRAMATIC VERSES BY SAMUEL BUTLER.

EPIGRAMS OF EDMUND WALLEB.

EPIGRAMS OF MATTHEW PRIOR.

EPIGRAMS OF JOSEPH ADDISON.. THE COUNTESS OF MANCHESTER.

EPIGRAMS OF ALEXANDER POPE.

EPIGRAMS OF DEAN SWIFT.

PAULUS THE LAWYER.. LINDSAY.

EPIGRAMS BY THOMAS SHERIDAN.

WHICH IS WHICH.. BYRON.

ON SOME LINES OF LOPEZ DE VEGA.. DR. JOHNSON.

ON SCOTLAND.. CLEVELAND.

EPIGRAMS OF PETER PINDAR.

EPIGRAMS BY ROBERT BURNS.

EPIGRAMS FROM THE GERMAN OF LESSING.

EPIGRAMS S. T. COLERIDGE.

TO MR. ALEXANDRE, THE VENTRILOQUIST.. SIR WALTER SCOTT.

FRENCH AND ENGLISH.. ERSKINE

EPIGRAMS BY THOMAS MOORE.

ON BUTLER'S MONUMENT.. REV. SAMUEL WESLEY.

ON THE DISAPPOINTMENT OF THE WHIG ASSOCIATES OP THE PRINCE REGENT, AT. NOT OBTAINING OFFICE.. CHARLES LAMB.

ON LORD DUDLEY AND WARD.. SAMUEL ROGERS

EPIGRAMS OF LORD BYRON.

EPIGRAMS OF BARHAM.

ANONYMOUS EPIGRAMS

EPIGRAMS BY THOMAS HOOD.

EPIGRAMS BY W. SAVAGE LANDOR

THE EMPTY BOTTLE.. WILLIAM AYTOUN

THE DEATH OF DOCTOR MORRISON.. BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY.

EPIGRAMS BY JOHN G. SAXE.

A REVOLUTIONARY HERO.. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

EPIGRAMS OF HALPIN

THE ORATOR'S EPITAPH.. LORD BROUGHAM.

ECCENTRIC AND NONDESCRIPT.

THE JOVIAL PRIEST'S CONFESSION.. TRANSLATED FROM THE LATIN OF WALTER DE MAPES,. TIME OF HENRY II.. LEIGH HUNT.

TONIS AD RESTO MARE.. ANONYMOUS

DIC.. DEAN SWIFT.

MOLL.. DEAN SWIFT.

TO MY MISTRESS.. DEAN SWIFT.

A LOVE SONG.. DEAN SWIFT.

A GENTLE ECHO ON WOMAN.

TO MY NOSE.. ANONYMOUS.

ROGER AND DOLLY.. BLACKWOOD.

THE IRISHMAN.. BLACKWOOD.

A CAT ALECTIC MONODY!. CRUIKSHANK'S OMNIBUS.

A NEW SONG. OF NEW SIMILES.. JOHN BAY

REMINISCENCES OP A SENTIMENTALIST.. THOMAS HOOD.

FAITHLESS NELLY GRAY.. A PATHETIC BALLAD.. THOMAS HOOD.

NO!. THOMAS HOOD.

JACOB OMNIUM'S HOSS. A NEW PALLICE COURT CHANT.. W. MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

THE WOFLE NEW BALLAD OF JANE RONEY AND MARY BROWN.. WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY.

THE BALLAD OF ELIZA DAVIS.. W. MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

THE LAMENTABLE BALLAD OF THE FOUNDLING OF SHOREDITCH.. W. MAKEPEACE THACKERAY.

THE CRYSTAL PALACE.. W. MAKEPEACE THACKERAY.

LETTER

A LETTER

THE CANDIDATE'S CREED.. (BIGLOW PAPERS.). JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.

THE COURTIN'.. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.

A SONG FOR A CATARRH.. PUNCH

EPITAPH ON A CANDLE.. PUNCH.

POETRY ON AN IMPROVED PRINCIPLE.. A RENCONTER WITH A TEA-TOTALLER.. PUNCH.

ON A REJECTED NOSEGAY,. OFFERED BY THE AUTHOR TO A BEAUTIFUL YOUNG LADY, WHO RETURNED IT.. PUNCH.

A SERENADE.. PUNCH.

AN INVITATION TO THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. PUNCH.

THE PEOPLE AND THEIR PALACE.. IMPROVISED BY A FINE GENTLEMAN.. PUNCH.

A "SWELL'S" HOMAGE TO MRS. STOWE. PUNCH.

THE EXCLUSIVE'S BROKEN IDOL.. PUNCH.

EPITAPH ON A LOCOMOTIVE.. BY THE SOLE SURVIVOR OF A DEPLORABLE ACCIDENT (NO BLAME TO BE ATTACHED. TO ANY SERVANTS OF THE COMPANY) .. PUNCH.

THE TICKET OF LEAVE.. [AS SUNG BY THE HOLDER, AMID A CONVIVIAL CIRCLE IN THE SLUMS.]. PUNCH.

A POLKA LYRIC.. BARCLAY PHILLIPS

A SUNNIT TO THE BIG OX.

ENIGMATIC

RIDDLES BY MATTHEW PRIOR.

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