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 and ribald parodies, spiced with a good deal of personal insult. "The Biter Bit" is a parody of "The May Queen;" "The Lay of the Lovelorn," of "Locksley Hall;" "The Laureate" (written on the death of Southey in 1843) is a parody of "The Merman," and is chiefly noticeable as containing an anticipatory mention of Tennyson in connexion with the Laureateship seven years before he succeeded to that office.

"Caroline "is a parody of some of the portraits of women—Lilian, Adeline, &c.

Wretched, indeed, must be the taste that such things as these can please, where "every noble thought is turned into a joke or quibble, the rich creations of a poet's fancy transformed into ribaldry and jest, and