“My Lord Tomnoddy is thirty-four;The Earl can last but a few years more.My Lord in the Peers will take his place:Her Majesty’s councils his words will grace.Office he’ll hold and patronage sway;Fortunes and lives he will vote away;And what are his qualifications?—ONE!He’s the Earl of Fitzdotterel’s eldest son.”Robert Barnabas Brough My Lord Tomnoddy.
