. Roundabout papers (From the Cornhill magazine) To which is added, The second funeral of Napoleon; The four Georges; The English humorists of the eighteenth century; Critical reviews and selections (from Punch). THE GEORGE THE FOURTH. 349 being lovely, so that women were fascinated by him ; and heir-apparent, so that all the world flattered him; he should have abeautiful voice, which led him directly in the way of drink : andthus all the pleasant devils were coaxing on poor Florizel ; de-sire, and idleness, and vanity, and drunkenness, all clashingtheir merry cymbals and bidding him co
. Roundabout papers (From the Cornhill magazine) To which is added, The second funeral of Napoleon; The four Georges; The English humorists of the eighteenth century; Critical reviews and selections (from Punch). THE GEORGE THE FOURTH. 349 being lovely, so that women were fascinated by him ; and heir-apparent, so that all the world flattered him; he should have abeautiful voice, which led him directly in the way of drink : andthus all the pleasant devils were coaxing on poor Florizel ; de-sire, and idleness, and vanity, and drunkenness, all clashingtheir merry cymbals and bidding him come on. We first hear of his warbling sentimental ditties under thewalls of Kew Palace by the moonlight banks of Thames, withLord Viscount Leporello keeping watch lest the music shouldbe disturbed. Singing after dinner and supper was the universal fashion ofthe day. You may fancy all England sounding with choruses,some ribald, some harmless, but all occasioning consumption ofa prodigious deal of fermented liquor. The jolly Muse her wuigs to try no frolic flights need take,But round the bowl would dip and fly, like swallows round a lake, sang Morris in one of his gallant Anacreontics, to which thePrince many a time jo
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