BY MICHING MALLECHO, Esq.

Is it a party in a parlour,
Crammed just as they on earth were crammed,
Some sipping punch—some sipping tea;
But, as you by their faces see,
All silent, and all—damned!
Peter Bell, by W. Wordsworth.

Ophelia.—What means this, my lord?
Hamlet.—Marry, this is Miching Mallecho; it means mischief.
~Shakespeare.