Punch (64.1873)

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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. [April 26, 1873.

A SOUSED CHILD DREADS WATER."

THE GOOD TIME COME.

Saint Geobge for Merry England!

For. as in days of yore,
This English land is merry now,

And shall be evermore.
What, have we not, at Eastertide,

Burlesques and brave buffoons ;
And for Christmas goodly pantomimes,

And clowns, and pantaloons ?

Saint George for Merry England!!

Is there no bitter ale,
That smacks like infusion of gentian :

And might serve should quassia fail ?
And are there no teetotallers,

That meet and make good cheer,
Whereas they drain the dish of tea,

And quaff the ginger beer ?

Saint George for Merry England!

And a Liquor Law eftsoons.
Our taverns are already closed

On Sunday afternoons.
Policemen watcb our hostelries,

Or enter in disguise.
Here's a health to your informers, all I

A benison on your spies!

Saint George for Merry England !

And the huckster's Calf of Gold,
And them thereto that sacrifice

The memories of old;
Them that, of late, at Surbiton,

The Thames' dead wall did plan :
And them that will Northumberland House

Demolish if they can.

Saint George for Merry England !

And the Lords of Manors good,
All who, by Act of Parliament,

Enclose the merry greenwood;
And most of all the Ministers

Who, an they might, would sell
Each rood of Royal forest land,

The revenue so to swell.

Saint George for Merry England !

"Now, Missy, you've Seen me Shave, so you must just Skedaddle, wj*%ft£™K ffifi*Sta Bky,

And with incense load the air;
For increasing population,

And the ceaseless growth of towns ;
O'erspreading woodlands, hills, and dales,

please, as I'M going to take my bath

" i won't Tell if you don't Take it, Uncle Kowland. Let me Stat,

please."

"Won't Tell? What do you mean, Missy V

" Why, nobody wouldn't go into cold AVater, Uncle, if they wasn't
made to, i suppose. nobody don't make you, do they ? "

And meadows, fields, and downs.

Saint George for Merry England !

And the British Working-men,
Who, banded in Trades' Unions,

IMPROPER EXPRESSION. Still strike and strike again! _

,,,,„., . , ... . While the means of life keep rising

•• The most enjoyable number was the symphony, writes a musical critic m From d to d more hi h

a notice of a Concert. Ibis word enjoyable is one of those novel expressions \ ^n(j much privation is the fact •

that have of late been intruded into the English of the Press and the Platform, i Prosperity- all the cry.

Enjoyable, that which may be enjoyed; analogy defines it, for the word is not .

in Johnson. In the foregoing connection it means most productive of enjoyment, j Saint George for Merry England !

The symphony, described as having been enjoyable when it was played," would * An<i the rare old English beef,

have been equally enjoyable if it had been murdered, or never been played at j And the butchers and the coalowners.

all. It would have been enjoyable-that is, capable of being enjoyed—whether May they never come to grief !

it was actually enjoyed or not. To say that a composition, performed at a' What matter if flesh and fuel both

Concert, was enjoyable, is either to represent that it was capable of being en- 1 To such a price have got,

joyed by a lover of music, or else to suggest that it might have been enjoyed if P°°r gentlefolk may not roast tne joint;

it "had been properly performed, or could have been heard. A dinner is eat- Can hardly boil the pot r

able, and likewise enjoyable, but in being eaten it, if enjoyed, is more than Saint George for Merry England,

enjoyable. This word "enjoyable" sounds like an importation from the And the Masses all tax-free,

United States. Though not so base a coin as " reliable," it is still not sterling, Unless they please to tax themselves,

and has the ring of a dollar. As taxed they choose to be.

For their excess of wages

In drink excised they spend.
Would ye pay a threefold Income-tax
Their"ways to make them mend ?

Saint George for Merry England !

The Commons, Lords, and Crown;
The British Constitution, _

Which Ben turned upside down;
For Hyde Park Monster Meetings,

No Ear.

If Shakspeaee's advice were generally acted upon, those of us who are so
unfortunate as to have no taste either for opera or oratorio might find it difficult
to get credit even for the commonest necessaries of life, for—speaking of " the
man that hath no music in himself "— does he not recommend, "Let no such
man be trusted ? "

A Pharmaceutical Question.—What medicinal substances are derived from , Held under Odgee's thumb :

Purgatory ? Not any of those, my Lady, that your Ladyship would probably I For the " good time coming " of the song,

rame. No, M'm. Rectified Spirits, M'm. Which is now the good time come !