DECEMBER 7, 1861.] F TJ



 ILLUSTRATIONS TO THE POETS-No. 2.



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"TTHE POET'S EYE IN FINE FRENZY ROLLING."-,'8li Speare.



 PLEBEIAN BALLADS.
 Adapted (for the first time) to Aristocratic Circles.
 No. 11.-THE BALLAD OF SIR GILES DE SCROGGINS.
 SI G-ILES DE SCROGGINS wooed Miss BROWN,
 Ritol-do-riddle-ol-deray,
 Who kept a bonnet shop in town,
 Ritol, etc.
 Ho swore he would not be denied,
 And asked her if she'd be his bride,
 To which Miss MARu BROWN replied,
 Ritol-do-riddle-ol-dcray.
 SI GILES DE SCIrOGGIN, you must know,
 Ritol, etc.
 Had friends who hated all things low,
 Ritol, etc.
 And so they tried their best to stop
 This marriage with the bonnet shop,
 They caught Sim GILEs upon the hop.
 Iitol-de-riddle-ol-deray.

 Two doctors were suflici-cnt
 Ritol, etc.
 To lock up this unlucky gent;
 Ritol, etc.
 The very next week that did come,
 Found poor SIR (GIHES extremely glum,
 In a pri-vato asy-li-titi.
 Ritol-de-riddle-ol-deray.

 That night as slept his ciuel mea,
 Ritol, etc.
 A ghost appeared, and cried, "Ira ha!
 Ritol, etc.
 Till GCIES regains his libcrtce,
 Enach night at ihalf-past two or three,
 Expect a spectre just like me."
 Ritol-de-riddle-ol-deray.


The ghost then vanished in a flame,
 Ritol, etc.
But every night at three it, camo.
 Ritol, etc.
At last one night when it had gone,
Slt CGILES's Ima cried out, Si iloliN,
This sort of thing canont go on !"
 Ritol-de-riddle-ol-deray.
Sm: JolN exclaimed, My lady, choose
 Ritol, etc.
Between the Browns and (ugh!) the Blues,
 Ritol, etc.
I'd sooner have the ghost ne'er drop
His visits, have him always stop,
Than tolerate a bonnet shop."
 Ritol-de-riddle-ol-deray.


 Now true love rocks not prison bars,
 Bitol, etc.
 And a DE SceooimNs "josts at sears; "
 Ritol, etc.
 So through a window GIOes crept out,
 When nobody was near about,
 And slid down a waterspout.
 S Ritol-de-riddle-ol-de-ray.
 He rushed to find iis M.AY BllowN,
 Ritol, etc.
 Ho flung the cabman hall-a-crown,-
 Ritol, etc.
 His fare was sixpence,-and lie flow
 To Cranbourno-alley, ninety-two,
 And cried, "My MARY, where are you? "
 Ritol-do-riddle-ol-deray.
 The shop was shut, and all was still;
 Ritol, etc.
 Sim GILES de S. felt rather ill;
 Ritol, etc.
 He seized a baker's boy and said,
 0 toll me, tell me, is she dead ?"
 "No," says the baker, marri-ed."
 Ritol-de-riddle-ol-doray.
 "If that's the case thenn" groaned Silt C.,
 Iitol, etc.
 I may as well go back to the
 Ritol, etc.
 Asylum, whoro I'll poison tako,
 But previously my will I'll make,
 And say 1've died tfr i It'lns sake.
 liltol-d-riddlle-ol-deray.
 Iois dreadful threat lhe carried out,
 titol, etc.
 Upon a nail extremely stout
 Ritol, etc.
 Ho placed a rope, and tied it round
 His nock, but 'twas too long lh found:
 He fell: but fell upon tihe ground.
 llitol.de-ri(llle-ol-(i lray.
 Reflection caimei ulponli him then:
 Rlitol, etc.
 Hle said, I shall not ,ry again."
 Ititol, etc.
 Says lie, Sit (Jliis m S(Coi(CiNs, Sir,
 As MoLL anolh'er dol, l iroflr,
 I ought not to hang aftl r her."
 itiitol-de-rihddle-ol-dern.y.
 Miss Biutotx now into ljisiness went;
 Ritol, etc.
 leer lihsbaitii all tlie profits spent:
 Ri]iiol, tic.
 ie mobt anil almost killed Slt GILErs,
 For which he vas trailsported miles
 Away, by 1li:. JI-slCil JJIBLEs.
 Ritol-dc-riddl'-ol-deri'ty.


 WHY must a professor of locuitii o bi a lnrvOi8s mall ?-Because his
art is in lis mouth.
 RtADICALL Y B1A.I.- -WlIo ca;lInnoti write inl FI;N ?-E-uI:NI ST JON ;S.


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