Punch or The London charivari: Punch or The London charivari (5.1843)

PUNCH'S TRIUMPHAL PROCESSION!

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A CORPORATION CAROL

FOR CHRISTMAS.

i.

Oh ! rest you, merry Aldermen, let nothing you dismay ;

Get up your -worships' appetites against next Christmas-day.

Stout trenchermen of London town, stand to your knives and forks;
Out-cormorant the cormorants, out-stork the very storks.

ii.

In sooth, a smoking sirloin is a gallant sight to see,

When folk are met in goodly set around mahogany ;

And the cover anon is raised by John before the portly host,
Who whets his blade ere its edge invade the giant of the roast.

hi.

How bounds unto the trumpet clang the warrior's heart ! and oh !

With what resistless energy he charges on the foe !

But his impetuosity is trifling unto that

Wherewith the doughty citizcn falls headlong on the fat.

iv.

Carve! Carve! Lord Mayor, and Sheriffs, and ye Common Councilmen,
Carve fearlessly the glorious joint ; cut, Moov, and come again ;
Cleave the plump turkey limb from limb, cry havoc on the game ;
Eat as your great forefathers ate—prove worthy of their fame.

v.

Upon the pudding manfully ! and should your spirits fail,

Let brandy o'er repletion—just a thimbleful—prevail.

London expects that every man, unto his city true,

His duty will, on Christmas-day, each at his table do.

vi.

But there's a double duty to be done on Christmas-day :

Eat, merry gentlemen, but—don't forget to give away,

Largesse, largesse unto the Poor, with open hand and
free :

So may your worships' dinners with your worships all

agree ! ^

THE DUSTMEN'S CARD.

\ ryE, the regular Dustmen, who are constantly requiring You to come
V V down with your Dust, come round as usual for your Contributions.
Please to remember that we are the regular Conservative dustmen, who
have always Settled your Ashes.

Be sure to ask for a medal, representing on one side the "Victory of the
Tories Over the Whigs in 1841," and on the reverse, " A pair of scales—
one Fixed and the other Sliding."

If any one should basely apply on Our behalf, saying that he is our
principal, please to take notice that we are All alike, and have no
Principles.

(Signed,) Goulbukn.

Ripon.

Gladstone.

THE SCAVENGER'S CARD.

The following bill, with the signature of H. Brougham, was thrown
down the area of the residence of Sir R. Peel, and was likewise left at the
houses of several other members of the Government : —

A CARD.

Iyour constant Scavenger, having now been for some time on the
perpetual Scavenge, claim at this festive season your kind benevolence.
Having never scrupled to go through any dirt in order to serve You,
I make bold to hope that I shall not be forgotten. Flease not to give
any thing to any one who is nut accompanied by a Dog answering to the
name of Roebuck. (S'K116^)

II. Brougham.

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