h'd upon the ground there lay
The Wolf--he'd fainted clean away.
No herald's voice, no tucket's cheer,
The noble Isengrim could hear;
An all but victor lately, now
Prostrated, palsied by one blow;
Nay, not so, by a kick unknightly,
Foul aim'd, yet for the mark too rightly,
Alas, its only merit that!
But what cared Reynard, it was pat,
And told, and did its business well;
'Twas every thing desirable.
The fight was o'er--the Wolf dragg'd out
More dead than living, 'mid the shout
Of rabble, whilst the heralds cry
'Largesse,' the others 'Victory.'
The air with noise and din resounded.
The friends of Isengrim, confounded,
Slunk off, whilst Reynard's stay'd; indeed
The very people who agreed
The Fox's death a public good
Had been, now 'mong the foremost stood,
By acclamations to attest
Regard outheroding the rest!"

We have not the heart to criticise this last and greatest effort of the
reproducer. Its slang speaks for itself, and certainly carries along
with it an undeniable "certificate of origin".

A good translation of any thing is perhaps an impossibility. But it must
be confessed, that the attempt of the German foreigner is highly
creditable to him, and, with a little amendment, would probably afford
our countrymen as fair an idea of the original as they are ever likely
to see. Certain it is, that Mr Naylor has not improved upon it.

If our readers think, that in the samples we have given of Mr Naylor's
beauties, we have not sufficiently brought forward some of the more
striking peculiarities of the Cockney school, we shall meet this
complaint by presenting them with the subjoined anthology, the fragrance
of which we think will satisfy their highest anticipations.

"The first in consequence at _court_,
As foremost in the public _thought_."

"Your cap and gloves you've left in _pawn_,
Thus adding ribaldry to _scorn_."

"What visitors had been? they _tell her_
How Reynard call'd, and said, 'nice _fellow_.'"

"Malkin should fall! and now the _fork_
By Martin turn'd to toma_hawk_."

"No sooner had the foe with_drawn_
To howl around the priest for_lorn_."

"Besides, he must have more than _thought once_
Upon the very vast _importance_."

"Of solemn asses half-a-_score_,
Who kick, when tickled with a _straw_!"

"I left him trapp'd, and then made _sheer off_:
His sufferings you can't form _idea of_."

"From underneath th