Punch (91.1886)

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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

[October 23, 1886.

PUCK'S PEREGRINATIONS.

[Adapted from "A Midsummer Night's Dream.")

" Up and Down, Up and Down, I will lead them Up and Down
Those Things do best please me that befall preposterously." '

ScEfrE—WoioJierein particular. Enter Pun- I (As miSht be said ^ Mr- Robebt Burns) Puck Thm, .ru.oV.f o^„v,f

chius on one side, and PucK.0» the other: And the Specials all sorts of ill turns' ' - SP- 8 • "lght'

| Shifting as though you had old Proteus'
charm , ., , . ' [harm ?

Misleading them, and laughing at their
Those that do call you the political Puck,
I "Sou fog their wits and put them out of luck

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Punchius. Either I mistake your shape and
making quite,
Or else you are that shrewd and tricksy sprite
Called—Mr. Spencer, say. Are you not he
That puts the Correspondents " all-aglee,"

T am that merry wanderer day and night.
The jest is excellent,_ it makes me smile,
When the quill-driving quidnuncs I beguile,
I lure them on and leave them in the hole.
By Jove how I confound the gossip's soul!
He pictures me with Bismabck hob-a-nob,

Are yoS not he, sweet imp ? 1 Or with astute Kalnoky on the job