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A close attention to each scene we gave , With Bostrum roared , and were with Greville grave , And , like good April , were rejoiced to find That Undermine was so well counter-mined ;
But though we did our duty and applauded When vice was punished , virtue was rewarded , We ' re bound to say—and somebody ' s to blame—You leave us just as wise as when we came . This artful title { you can't fail to know ) Has made us curious and has left us so . 9
From first to last , each here can take his davy , That not one secret , "—Sirs , I cry peecavi . You ' re badly used , and I bear a commission ( At present not the Queen ' s ) to supply th ' omission . But where begin 1 What shall I first disclose ? Whose little failings speak of and expose ? . . . . Unworthy theme ! Muse , take a higher flight ! No " School for Scandal ! " ' s acted here to-night .
Well , then I've secrets of another class ;~ If gossip suits not , politics may pass . You shake your heads ? Then must I thus conclude This subject also is to be tabooed ? Ungrateful task i How much the labour ' s heightened !—Enlightening those who will not be enlightened !
You might have heard what Ministers were doing—Th' intrigues concocted and the storms a-brewing ; What heavy burdens will come off our backs—The paper duty and the income-tax ; What honourable gentlemen will say , Meeting in Parliament , just a week to-day ; 44 What Next and Next / " How very blank will look A certain author of a certain book
Bearing this name . He prophesied , you know , Th ' allies would ne ^ er prevail against the foe . Unhappy prophet 1 Scarce he'd made the blunder When Bussia , " the Invincible , " knocked under—The Czar had Mastered—vowed he'd keep the field , Declared that never—No ! he'd never yield , Called Austria ' s points absurd—and then repented , " And saying that he'd ne ' er consent—consented "All this you might and should have heard , with more : — Authentic news from the late seat of war ,
And full reports of diplomatic tussles Soon to take place in conference at Brussels . " Secrets worth knowing , " these ; but pass them by , Perhaps you ' re , after all , as wise as I . Yet still the curious shall be indulged , Come , hear the myst ' ries of the Craft divulged ! Ye uninitiate ! For your sake I dare The wrath Masonic lowering everywhere [ pointing around ] I ' ve made a promise—I'll redeem it , too—Spite e ' en of P . P . G . S . W . * Know , then , in what Freemasonry consists , What forms our bond of union , how exists
That wide-spread fellowship from one source sprung , Which knows no country and which owns no tongue : —
* The Masonic title of George ttoltau , Bs < i
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A close attention to each scene we gave , With Bostrum roared , and were with Greville grave , And , like good April , were rejoiced to find That Undermine was so well counter-mined ;
But though we did our duty and applauded When vice was punished , virtue was rewarded , We ' re bound to say—and somebody ' s to blame—You leave us just as wise as when we came . This artful title { you can't fail to know ) Has made us curious and has left us so . 9
From first to last , each here can take his davy , That not one secret , "—Sirs , I cry peecavi . You ' re badly used , and I bear a commission ( At present not the Queen ' s ) to supply th ' omission . But where begin 1 What shall I first disclose ? Whose little failings speak of and expose ? . . . . Unworthy theme ! Muse , take a higher flight ! No " School for Scandal ! " ' s acted here to-night .
Well , then I've secrets of another class ;~ If gossip suits not , politics may pass . You shake your heads ? Then must I thus conclude This subject also is to be tabooed ? Ungrateful task i How much the labour ' s heightened !—Enlightening those who will not be enlightened !
You might have heard what Ministers were doing—Th' intrigues concocted and the storms a-brewing ; What heavy burdens will come off our backs—The paper duty and the income-tax ; What honourable gentlemen will say , Meeting in Parliament , just a week to-day ; 44 What Next and Next / " How very blank will look A certain author of a certain book
Bearing this name . He prophesied , you know , Th ' allies would ne ^ er prevail against the foe . Unhappy prophet 1 Scarce he'd made the blunder When Bussia , " the Invincible , " knocked under—The Czar had Mastered—vowed he'd keep the field , Declared that never—No ! he'd never yield , Called Austria ' s points absurd—and then repented , " And saying that he'd ne ' er consent—consented "All this you might and should have heard , with more : — Authentic news from the late seat of war ,
And full reports of diplomatic tussles Soon to take place in conference at Brussels . " Secrets worth knowing , " these ; but pass them by , Perhaps you ' re , after all , as wise as I . Yet still the curious shall be indulged , Come , hear the myst ' ries of the Craft divulged ! Ye uninitiate ! For your sake I dare The wrath Masonic lowering everywhere [ pointing around ] I ' ve made a promise—I'll redeem it , too—Spite e ' en of P . P . G . S . W . * Know , then , in what Freemasonry consists , What forms our bond of union , how exists
That wide-spread fellowship from one source sprung , Which knows no country and which owns no tongue : —
* The Masonic title of George ttoltau , Bs < i