h.
The Fall of Grapes, during a heavy storm.
The Cock'd Hat Combat.
A March to the Workhouse.
Bird-cage Duett, by Messrs. C***** and B****.
A public Breakfast, with a dance by thirty sovereigns.
Glee--"When shall we three meet again."
The Barber's Hornpipe, by the learned D****.
The Turk's Head Revel.
Saint Christopher's March.
The Committee in Danger.
The Cloisters, Eton

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HERBERT STOCKHORE, THE MONTEM POET LAUREATE.

A SKETCH FROM THE LIFE,

As he appeared in the Montent Procession of May, 1823.

BY BERNARD BLACKMANTLE, AND ROBERT TRANSIT

Bending beneath a weight of time,
And crippled as his Montem ode,
We found the humble son of rhyme

Busy beside the public road.
Nor laurel'd wreath or harp had he,

To deck his brow or touch the note
That wakes the soul to sympathy.

His face was piteous as his coat,
'Twas motley strange; e'en nature's self,

In wild, eccentric, playful mood,
Had, for her pastime, form'd the elf,

A being scarcely understood--
Half idiot, harmless; yet a gleam

Of sense, and whim, and shrewdness, broke
The current of his wildest stream;

And pity sigh'd as madness spoke.

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Lavater, Lawrence, Camper, here

Philosophy new light had caught:
Judged by your doctrines 'twould appear

The facial line denoted thought.{1}
But say, what system e'er shall trace

By scalp or visage mental worth?
The ideot's form, the maniac's face,

Are shared alike by all on earth.
"Comparative Anatomy--"

If, Stockhore, 'twas to thee apply'd,
'Twould set the doubting Gallist free,

And Spurzheim's idle tales deride.
But hence with visionary scheme,

Though Bell, or Abernethy, write;
Be Herbert Stockhore all my theme,

The laureate's praises I indite;
He erst who sung in Montem's praise,

And, Thespis like, from out his cart
Recited his extempore lays,

On Eton's sons, in costume smart,
Who told of captains bold and grand,

Lieutenants, marshals, seeking _salt