The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-17 00:00:00

SOME ACCOUNT OF TILE NEW

COMEDY.

Sir Harcourt Courtly, of Stow-in-the-Wold,
Was an Exquisite, upwards of sixty years old,
And he wanted a wife,
To plague out his life
( A very strange want for an elderly man,
Whose love is at best but a flash in the pan)
So he went to a friend, and he told him his case,
Who replied, " I've a niece with a sweet, pretty face ;
" She's brisk as a bee,
" Has a plum in the Three
" Per cents., and o'er2ows so with frolic and glee,
" That she'll suit you, I'm sure, my old buck, to a T ;
" So if you'll leave town
" At once, and come down
" To my seat at Oak Abbey, of sporting renown—
" Where stretches for miles a magnificent park aw ay—
" I'll splice you, as sure as my name is Max Hai kaway !"

Sir Harcourt asented, and thought it an age
'Till he reach'd his friend's seat by the six o'clock stage;
He was figged out in style,
Wore a natty French tile,
And smelt so of musk you might nose him a mile.—
With a world of grimace
He bowed to Miss Grace,
Who no sooner caught sight of his si:rivel!ed cld face,
Than she muttered, " Oh my
Eyes, what a Guy !"
While Max Hat kaway whispered in answer, " Oh fie !
Were he tall as a May pole, and lean as a rat,
You should wed him, you saucy young baggage, that's fiat!"

But there's many a slip
'Twist the cup and the lip,
And 'twas fated Miss Grace should not wed such a rip,
For while he was wooing,
And billing and cooing

With his sweet-heart, the Devil's own mischief was brewing;
And wherever there's mischief, I've head people cry,
A woman is certain—l cannot tell why—
To have one whole finger at least in thepie I

It chanced that at diaper Sir Harcourt, one day,
Sate next to a dashing young Belie, Lady Gay,
Who had lately dropped anchor
Beside an old banker,

And of course took her husband's queer surname of Sranker:
She was wondrously witty,
Coquetti-h and pretty,

Could turn a man's head with an amorous ditty ;
Could leap hedge and ditch,
No matter which,
Was a capital shot, and (abounding in pluck)
Could dive like an otter, and swim like a duck,
And was said—but perhaps the' report may be scandal—
To box quite as well as the late Mr. Randall !

Now the instant Sir Harcourt got sight of this Belle,
He bade to Miss Grace an eternal farewell,
For he thought to his strict sense of honour 'twas due,
To be off with the old love,
Which now was the ci Id love,
Before he was handsomely on with the new ;
Having soothed thus his conscience, he flirted away,
Like an ass as he was, with the area Lady Gay,
And whenever she sung,
(Which she called, giving tongue)
He was always the first to wvke up from his snore,
Approach the piano, and cry out " Encore !"
Thus he flirted, and simpered, and sighed, 'till Olie night
By the lady's sort glances bewildered outright,
He dropped on one knee,
And, chuckling with glee,
Said, " May I request, my divine Lady G.,
That. you'll make your Sir Harcourt the proudest of men,
By eloping to-morrow precisely at ten ?"

" Elope !" quoth the lady, her cheeks in a glow,
" Elope !—well, I never !—My stars, here's a go !
" Does your mother, you lout,
" Know that you're out,
" And the very unprincipled tricks you're about?
" Elope !—And with you?—
" Curse me, if I do,
" Were you even as rich as old Rothschild the Jew !"
So saying, she fetched him a slap in the face,
Rang the bell loudly, and summoned Grace !

The rest of the plot may be easily guess'd ;
Sir Harcourt, and justly, came off second best,
For he lost both his wife and his mistress, whOse laughter
Rang shrill in his memory many weeks after,
And he learned this sad fact
(Which ends the Fifth Act)
That a man must be either a knave or a dunce,
Who attempts to make love to two women at once

THE BOY JONES IN THE PALACE

AGAIN.

On Monday evening the boy Edward Jones. who, about
three months ago, found his way into Buckingham
Palace, and bad the satisfaction of inspecting the
Queen's apartments and hearing the Priccas Ro3al
" cry," paid another visit to the Palace, but,
luckily for the peace of its inmates, he was soon
discovered, and token into custody. He lied cfLeted an
entrance unobseivcd by the guards and police stationed in
the P.lace and its vicinity ; but before he had time to in-
trude far, his pm gross was arrested by a sergoact of police.
Ho was instantly conveyed to the stat;on-house, where he
remained all night, and to-day was bruught to Bow-street
by two Inspectors of the A division. Mr. Hall, the chief
Magistrate of that Court, hiving communication with the
Home-office, ordered the prisoner to be taken there,
wnere the c';:arge will be gone into, as on the l.ta occa-
sion. The prisoner only came out of Tuthill-fields House
of Correktion this day fortnight, and it was supposed
from the puni,hment he had Undergone that be would
not repeat his offer.ce. His father says that offers have
lately been made to him on the part of the Government,
and that they have proposed to place him in a ship of war,
to keep him out of trouble; and sfLerwFrds to get him
some situation in the colonies. This, however, his mother
disapproved a, stating she did not like the idea of her
" son being borne away from her." The boy himself, it
appears, exhibited no unwillingness to leave the country,
but Le did not appear to have any wish to commence any
active employment.