A Sequel to Don Juan — page 45: what you’re looking at

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36 A SEQUEL TO “Nal nist humbug’’ is the wise man’s maxim— Wise in a worldly point of view, I mean : With that he parries sense when it attacks him, (For common sense will sometimes intervene Importunately :)—humbug also backs him — oN When at a public meeting he is seen, And aids him in his trading speculations At home or with the continental nations. XC, Humbug has made Prince Albert a Field Marshal, Although he never saw a battle’s smoke ;— But then the Queen’s to him exceeding partial, And says it was a very welcome stroke Of Fortune when she had him—and if war shall Again attempt to place a stranger’s yoke Around her subjects’ necks, old Wellington Will teach the foemen manners ere he’s done. Xci. Dickens full well, too, knows what humbug means, Since he has built his fame upon that basis. By dint of sheer vulgarity, and scenes Picked from Saint Giles—with scarcely an oasis On which the eye may find some evergreens— Boz has contrived successfully to trace his Career unto the happy temple which. Confers on him the honour of a niche. comicbooks:com