Volume 1 — THE TWO MACBETHS.

O, Gemini- Crimini! Nimini- Pimini Representatives of the Tartan hero, Who wildly tear a passion into rags More ragged than the hags That round about the cauldron go! Murderers! who murder Shakspeare so, That ’stead of murdering sleep, ye do not do it; But, vice versa, send the audience to it. And, oh!— But no— Illustrious Mac- Beth, or -ready, And thou, small quack, Of plaudits greedy! Our pen, deserted by the tuneful Muses, To write on such a barren theme refuses.