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1878.] [In 1878 two stanzas appeared in Punch (preceded by a quotation from a leading article in that ne plus ultra of political tergiversation, the Daily Telegraph). The quotation and the stanzas, as nearly as I can recollect, ran as follows:

"Of Mr. Gladstone we may say, with Imogen, 'My lord, I fear, has forgot Britain'; and History will add, as Jachimo does, 'And himself,

I have always been inclined, since first seeing them, on the day of publication, to attribute these lines to