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Speak sober truth with smiling lips; the bitter wrap in sweetness-
Sound sense in seeming nonsense, as the grain is hid in chaff;
And fear not that the lesson e'er may seem to lack completeness-
A man may say a wise thing, though he say it with a laugh."

ANONYMOUS.

LONDON:

GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS,

THE BROADWAY, LUDGATE.

NEW YORK: 129, BROOME STREET.

1867.

280. m. 171.

LONDON:

SAVILL AND EDWARDS, PRINTERS, CHANDOS STREET,

COVENT GARDEN.

PREFACE.

THE present forms the tenth volume of the Shilling Series of Routledge's Popular Song Books, and the fourth devoted to songs of wit and humour. In its compilation the Editor has again had the hearty co-operation of some of the best comic lyric writers of the day, and has once more to express his obligations to Jacob Beuler, Jacob Cole, E. L. Blanchard, James Bruton, and Edward Draper, Esqs., as well as to Messrs. Hopwood and Crewe, Mr. B. Williams, Mr. J. Williams, Mr. Shepherd, Messrs. Metzler and Co., and others, for their kind permission to include some of their best copyright songs. In one or two instances, where songs have been inserted without the author's permission, it has been occasioned by the inability of the Editor to obtain their addresses, and a sincere desire not to leave them unrepresented in a volume devoted to-what he hopes may be considered-sterling comic songs.

NOTTING-HILL, LONDON, 1867.