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The Members who contrived to fill
The State purse from the steamboat-till,
Dressed out in turbans and white sleeves,
Would figure in the “Forty Thieves.”

We’ll linger with delighted grin
To see old Root in “Nipperkin,”
And gaze with reverential wonder
On Skinner’s sapient face in “Ponder!”
While Peter R——, the jovial soul,
Will toss off Jobson’s “brimming bowl,”
Fit for a Senator to swim in;
And bravos rung from half the town,
Would tell the fame of Walter Bowne,
In “Cacafogo” and old women.

Our City Aldermen, you know,
Are conjurors, ex officio;
And, with the Mayor in his silk breeches,
Would do for “Hecate and the witches.”
Christian and Warner, long the scourges
Of Bucks and other “vagrom men,”
Would find in “Dogberry and Verges”
Their very selves restored again.

Buckmaster, fat, and full of glee,
Might rival Cooke in “Jack Falstaff;”
“Pistol” and “Bobadil” would be
Revived once more in Captain Haff.