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• The Roast Beef of Old England

  When mighty roast beef was the Englishman’s food,
  It ennobled our hearts, and enrichèd our blood;
  Our soldiers were brave, and our courtiers were good. …

  Henry Fielding

• The Snug Little Island

  Daddy Neptune, one day, to Freedom did say,
  If ever I lived upon dry land,
  The spot I should hit on would be little Britain! …

  Thomas Dibdin

• The Jacobite on Tower Hill

  He tripped up the steps with a bow and a smile,
  Offering snuff to the chaplain the while,
  A rose at his button-hole that afternoon— …

  George Walter Thornbury

• “God save the king”

  God save our gracious king!
  Long live our noble king!
  God save the king! …

  Henry Carey

• Veteran and Recruit

  He filled the crystal goblet
  With golden-beaded wine:
  “Come, comrades, now, I bid ye— …

  Edward Wentworth Hazewell

• The Private of the Buffs

  Or, the British Soldier in China
  [“Some Seiks, and a private of the Buffs, 1 having remained behind with the grog carts, fell into the hands of the Chinese. On the next day they were brought before the authorities and ordered to perform Kotou. The Seiks obeyed, but Moyse, the English soldier, dec…

  Sir Francis Hastings Doyle

• Women’s Chorus

  From the Greek by William Collins
  THEY ’RE always abusing the women,
  As a terrible plague to men: …

  Aristophanes

• The Wives of Weinsberg

  From the German by Charles Timothy Brooks
  WHICH way to Weinsberg? neighbor, say!
  ’T is sure a famous city: …

• Sorrows of Werther

  Werther had a love for Charlotte
  Such as words could never utter;
  Would you know how first he met her? …

  William Makepeace Thackeray

• The Well of St. Keyne

  “In the parish of St. Neots, Cornwall, is a well arched over with the robes of four kinds of trees,—withy, oak, elm, and ash,—and dedicated to St. Keyne. The reported virtue of the water is this, that, whether husband or wife first drink thereof, they get the mastery thereby.”
  —FULLER.
  A WELL the…

  Robert Southey

• The Belle of the Ball

  Years, years ago, ere yet my dreams
  Had been of being wise or witty,
  Ere I had done with writing themes, …

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed

• Echo and the Lover

  Lover. Echo! mysterious nymph, declare
  Of what you ’re made, and what you are.
  Echo. Air! …

  Anonymous

• “Nothing to Wear”

  Miss Flora MCFLIMSEY, of Madison Square,
  Has made three separate journeys to Paris,
  And her father assures me, each time she was there, …

  William Allen Butler

• The Proud Miss MacBride

  A Legend of Gotham
  O, TERRIBLY proud was Miss MacBride,
  The very personification of pride, …

  John Godfrey Saxe

• On an Old Muff

  Time has a magic wand!
  What is this meets my hand,
  Moth-eaten, mouldy, and …

  Frederick Locker-Lampson

• How Paddy Got “Under Government”

  A Place under Government
  Was all that Paddy wanted.
  He married soon a scolding wife, …

  Anonymous

• Saint Anthony’s Sermon to the Fishes

  Saint Anthony at church
  Was left in the lurch,
  So he went to the ditches …

  Anonymous

• King John and the Abbot of Canterbury

  From “Percy’s Reliques”
  AN ANCIENT story I ’ll tell you anon
  Of a notable prince that was called King John; …

  Anonymous

• Gluggity Glug

  From “The Myrtle and the Vine”
  A JOLLY fat friar loved liquor good store,
  And he had drunk stoutly at supper; …

  George Colman the Younger

• I Am a Friar of Orders Gray

  From the Opera of “Robin Hood”
  I AM a friar of orders gray,
  And down in the valleys I take my way; …

  John O’Keeffe

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