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Facts and Fancies for the Curious

by Charles C. Bombaugh

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Appropriate Petition

The following verses were written upon the occasion of the conference of knighthood upon Sir Fielding Ould, the second master of the Dublin Lying-in Hospital:

Sir Fielding Ould is made a knight,
He should have been a Lord by right;
For then each lady’s prayers would be—
“O Lord, good Lord, deliver me.”

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