sauce for the
gander,' into 'The culinary adornments which suffice for the female of the
race _Anser_, maybe relished also with the masculine adult of the same
species.' Some London wag, in a kindred spirit, has illustrated the
cockney song, 'If I had a donkey as vouldn't go, do you think I'd wallop
him?' etc., as follows: 'The herbaceous boon and the bland recommendation
to advance, are more operative on the ansinine quadruped than the stern
imprecation and the oaken cudgel:

'Had I an ass averse to speed,
I ne'er would strike him; no indeed!
I'd give him hay, and cry 'Proceed,'
And 'Go on EDWARD!''

The same species of satire is now and then visited upon the 'Troubadour
Songs,' which have become so afflictingly common of late years. Some of
these we have already given; and we find them on the increase in England.
We have before us, from the London press of TILT AND BOGUE, 'Sir
WHYSTLETON MUGGES, a Metrical Romaunte, in three Fyttes,' with copious
notes. A stanza or two will suffice as a specimen. The knightly hero, it
needs only to premise, has been jilted by his fair 'ladye-love,' who
retires to her boudoir, while the knight walks off in despair:

'Hys herte beat high and quycke;
Forth to his tygere he did call,
'Bring me my palfrey from his stall,
For I moste cotte my stycke!'

'Ye stede was brought, ye knyghte jomped up,
He woulde not even stay to sup,
But swyft he rode away;
Still groanynge as he went along,
And vowing yet to come out stronge,
Upon some future day.

'Alack for poore Syr WHYSTLETON,
In love and warre so bold!
Ye Ladye BLANCHE hym browne hath done,
He is completely solde!

'Completely solde alack he is,
Alack and wel-a-day;
Mort DIEU! a bitterre fate is hys
Whose trewe love sayth him nay!'

Thus endeth 'Fytte ye First.' We learn from the preface that the 'Rhime of
the Manne whose Mothre did not Know he was Out,' and 'Ye Lodgemente of
Maistre FERGISOUN,' are also in the editor's possession, but owing to the
imperfect state of the MSS., it is doubtful whether they will ever be
published. They have however been submitted to the inspection of 'The
PERCY Society!' . . . WE are well pleased to learn that Sir EDWARD LYTTON
BULWER, the distinguished author, is soon to visit the United States. That
he will be warmly welcomed and cordially received, we cannot doubt; but we
have good reason to believe that in the present instan