Note 511 — CANTO THE NINTH.
Reading edition
This was written long before the suicide of that person. [For "his parts of speech" compare—
" ... that long mandarin C-stle-r-agh (whom Fum calls the Confucius of Prose) Was rehearsing a speech upon Europe's repose To the deep double bass of the fat Idol's nose."
Moore's Fum and Hum, The Two Birds of Royalty.]