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The Ingoldsby Lyrics

By Thomas Ingoldsby [i.e. R. H. Barham]

Ingoldsby, Thomas (1788-1845)

POLITICAL SKITS, PARODIES, Etc.

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OCCASIONAL PIECES.

The House that Jack Built.

The Dark-looking Man.

Mother Goose's Tale;

Encomium Longanum.

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Relics of Antient Poetry.

I.

II.

Correspondence.

A Strand Eclogue.

Garris v. Kemble.

The Modern Ixion:

The Cabouat Tragedy.

The Brave Lieutenant Fitch.

Lines Left at Hook's House in June, 1834.

The Church's Petition.

To Dr. Roberts, with a China Jug.

The Two M.P.'s.

Lines on the Birthday of Sir Thomas White.

The Coronation.

A Song of Sixpence.

Sum and Substance of a New Domestic Tragedy.

SONGS, EPIGRAMS, Etc.

FAMILIAR EPISTLES.

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MORAL.

Little old women, wherever ye be,
Gentle or simple, come listen to me—

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Beware how you storm
And bawl for Reform,
And great alterations begin,
Lest in going about,
To rout one grievance out,
You let half a score come in.