Test Bank for Foundations and Adult Health Nursing, 6th Edition: Barbara Christensen

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Nursing, 6th Edition: Barbara Christensen
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Christensen: Foundations and Adult Health Nursing, 6th Edition

Chapter 01: The Evolution of Nursing

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MULTIPLE CHOICE

1. A nursing program certified by a state agency is said to be:

a. accredited.
b. approved.
c. provisional.
d. exemplified.

ANS: B
Approved means certified by a state agency for having met minimum standards;
accredited means certified by the NLN for having met more complex standards.

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TOP: Nursing programs KEY: Nursing Process Step: N/A
MSC: NCLEX: N/A

2. The process to obtain a nursing license in another state when the person has passed
the NCLEX® Examination in their own state is to:
a. retake the NCLEX® examination in the new state.
b. pass NCLEX® with a score high enough to meet the new state requirements.
c. attend a nursing program in the new state.
d. utilize the reciprocity agreement between states.

ANS: D
Reciprocity allows licensure from another state.

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TOP: Licensure KEY: Nursing Process Step: N/A MSC: NCLEX:
N/A

3. When discussing the health care delivery system, the nurse must recognize that:
a. it includes all states.
b. it affects the illness of patients.

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c. insurance companies are not involved.

d. the major goal is to achieve optimal levels of health care.

ANS: D
The nurse must recognize that in the health care delivery system, the major goal is to
achieve optimal levels of health care.

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TOP: Health care systems KEY: Nursing Process Step: N/A
MSC: NCLEX: N/A

4. To identify the needs of a patient and design care to meet those needs, the health
care team requires:
a. the Kardex.
b. the physician’s order sheet.
c. an individualized care plan.
d. the nurse’s notes.

ANS: C
An individualized care plan involves all health care workers and outlines care to meet
the needs of the individual patient.

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TOP: Care plan KEY: Nursing Process Step: Planning MSC: NCLEX:
N/A

5. The patient care emphasis on wellness, rather than illness, began as a result of:
a. increased education concerning causes of illness.
b. improved insurance payments.
c. decentralized care centers.
d. increased number of health care givers.

ANS: A
Once causes were found, emphasis shifted from cure to prevention.

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TOP: Wellness KEY: Nursing Process Step: N/A MSC: NCLEX:
N/A

6. The most effective process to ensure that the care plan is meeting the needs of the
patient or, if not, which changes should be made, is:
a. documentation.
b. communication.
c. evaluation.
d. planning.
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ANS: B
Communication is essential among the health care team to evaluate and modify the
care plan.

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TOP: Communication KEY: Nursing Process Step: N/A
MSC: NCLEX: N/A

7. An interdisciplinary approach to patient treatment enhances care by:

a. improving efficiency of care.
b. reducing the number of caregivers.
c. preventing the fragmentation of patient care.
d. shortening hospital stay.

ANS: C
An interdisciplinary approach prevents fragmentation of care.

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TOP: Interdisciplinary approach KEY: Nursing Process Step: N/A
MSC: NCLEX: N/A

8. A newly licensed LPN/LVN may practice:

a. independently in a hospital setting.
b. with an experienced LPN/LVN.
c. under the supervision of a physician or RN.
d. as a sole practitioner in a clinic setting.

ANS: C
An LPN/LVN practices under the supervision of a physician, dentist, OD, or RN.

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TOP: Vocational nursing KEY: Nursing Process Step: N/A
MSC: NCLEX: N/A

9. Whose influence on nursing practice in the nineteenth century was related to

improvement of patient environment as a method of health promotion?
a. Clara Barton
b. Linda Richards
c. Dorothea Dix
d. Florence Nightingale

ANS: D
The influence of Florence Nightingale was highly significant in the nineteenth century
as she fought for sanitary conditions, fresh air, and general improvement in the patient
environment.
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 Which custom makes us single out—the heart;
You ask “How by a column this is done,”
I answer, “’Tis a hollow thing of stone.”
Figaro in London, March, 1833.
[40]Here is to be observed the astonishing similarity of manners and customs, between the
Irish and Scotch, in former days. How close is
“Whack for O’Shaughnashane! Tooleywhagg, ho!
to “Roderigh Vich Alpine Dhu! ho ieroe!”—See The Lady of the Lake.
In the present instance, ’tis a Song at a Banquet; in the latter, ’tis a Song in a Boat. ’Tis
merely the difference betwixt wine and water. The vassals on both occasions express their
attachment to their Chief, and their ardour for his Crest; one being an Evergreen Pine, the
other a Potato.
[41] Jokeby was said to have been written by an Amateur of Fashion.
[42]The indefatigable researches of my friend, Mr. Francis Douce, have at last enabled him
to procure me one of these celebrated banners. It is quartered according to the most
received military practices, and in the midst appears a portrait, which I at first mistook for
the effigy of a goose and trimmings; but now find to compose the head and wig of my
friend Robert Warren. On either side are blazoned two blacking brushes rampant, armed
and langued gules, with a pair of top boots argent. The whole forms a striking heraldic
curiosity, and is now deposited in the British Museum.
[43] Major Yelverton.
The deeds of Admiral Sir Charles Napier, as commander of the Baltic Fleet in the
[44]
Russian War, bore a very insignificant relation to his boasts before he assumed the
command.
[45] Sir Edmund Henderson, formerly Chief of the Metropolitan Police.
[46]Much comment was made upon the fact that the Duchess of Kent and her daughter, the
Princess Victoria (heiress to the throne), were not present at the coronation of William IV.
[47] [The Marquis of Salisbury, Sir Stafford Northcote, and Mr. James Lowther.]
[48] Sunderland Times, 7th Jan., 1876, &c.
[49] Report of the Medical Officer of the Privy Council on the Smallpox Epidemic of 1871-
2.
[The Happy Land by F. Tomline and Gilbert A’Beckett was a burlesque of The Wicked
[50]
World. It was produced at the Court Theatre on March 3, 1873, and prohibited by the Lord
Chamberlain on March 7, principally because three of the actors were made up to represent
Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Ayrton, and Mr. Robert Lowe. It was afterwards reproduced with
sundry alterations and omissions.]
[51] Old Pensioners of Sutton’s hospital—so called by the boys.
[52]For the Glendoveer, and the rest of the dramatis personæ of this imitation, the reader is
referred to the “Curse of Kehama.”
[53]

Midnight, and yet no eye

Through all the Imperial City closed in sleep!
Behold her streets a blaze
With light that seems to kindle the red sky,
Her myriads swarming through the crowded ways!
Master and slave, old age and infancy,
All, all abroad to gaze;
House-top and balcony
Clustered with women, who throw back their veils,
With unimpeded and insatiate sight
To view the funeral pomp which passes by,
As if the mournful rite
Were but to them a scene of joyance and delight.
From Southey’s The Curse of Kehama.
This couplet was introduced by the authors by way of bravado, in answer to some one
[54]
who alleged that the English language contained no rhyme to chimney.
[55]Apollo. A gigantic wooden figure of this deity was erected on the roof. The writer
(horrescit referens!) is old enough to recollect the time when it was first placed there. Old
Bishop, then one of the masters of Merchant Taylors’ School, wrote an epigram upon the
occasion, which, referring to the aforesaid figure, concluded thus:
“Above he fills up Shakespeare’s place,
And Shakespeare fills up his below.”
Very antithetical; but quære as to the meaning? The writer, like Pluto, “long puzzled his
brain” to find it out, till he was immersed “in a lower deep” by hearing Madame de Staël
say, at the table of the late Lord Dillon, “Buonaparte is not a man, but a system.” Inquiry
was made in the course of the evening of Sir James Mackintosh as to what the lady meant?
He answered, “Mass, I cannot tell.” Madame de Staël repeats this apophthegm in her work
on Germany. It is probably understood there.
[56]O.P. This personage, who is alleged to have growled like a bull-dog, requires rather a
lengthened note for the edification of the rising generation. The “horns, rattles, drums,”
with which he is accompanied, are no inventions of the poet. The new Covent Garden
Theatre opened on the 18th September, 1809, when a cry of “Old Prices” (afterwards
diminished to O.P.) burst out from every part of the house. This continued and increased in
violence till the 23rd, when rattles, drums, whistles, and cat-calls, having completely
drowned the voices of the actors, Mr. Kemble, the stage manager, came forward and said
that a committee of gentlemen had undertaken to examine the finances of the concern, and
that until they were prepared with their report the theatre would continue closed. “Name
them!” was shouted from all sides. The names were declared, viz., Sir Charles Price, the
Solicitor-General, the Recorder of London, the Governor of the Bank, and Mr. Angerstein.
“All shareholders!” bawled a wag from the gallery. In a few days the theatre re-opened: the
public paid no attention to the report of the referees, and the tumult was renewed for
several weeks, with even increased violence. The proprietors now sent in hired bruisers, to
mill the refractory into subjection. This irritated most of their former friends, and, amongst
the rest, the annotator, who accordingly wrote the song of “Heigh-ho, says Kemble,” which
was caught up by the ballad-singers, and sung under Mr. Kemble’s house windows in Great
Russell Street. A dinner was given at the Crown and Anchor Tavern in the Strand, to
celebrate the victory obtained by W. Clifford in his action against Brandon, the box-keeper,
for assaulting him for wearing the letters O.P. in his hat. At this dinner, Mr. Kemble
attended, and matters were compromised by allowing the advanced price (seven shillings)
to the boxes. The writer remembers a former riot of a similar sort at the same theatre (in the
year 1792), when the price to the boxes was raised from five shillings to six. That tumult,
however, only lasted three nights.
[57]“From the knobb’d bludgeon to the taper switch.” This image is not the creation of the
poets: it sprang from reality. The authors happened to be at the Royal Circus when “God
save the King” was called for, accompanied by a cry of “stand up!” and “hats off!” An
inebriated naval lieutenant, perceiving a gentleman in an adjoining box slow to obey the
call, struck his hat off with his stick, exclaiming, “Take off your hat, sir!” The other thus
assaulted proved to be, unluckily for the lieutenant, Lord Camelford, the celebrated bruiser
and duellist. A set-to in the lobby was the consequence, where his lordship quickly proved
victorious. “The devil is not so black as he is painted,” said one of the authors to the other;
“let us call upon Lord Camelford, and tell him that we were witnesses of his being first
assaulted.” The visit was paid on the ensuing morning at Lord Camelford’s lodgings, in
Bond Street. Over the fire-place in the drawing-room were ornaments strongly expressive
of the pugnacity of the peer. A long thick bludgeon lay horizontally supported by two brass
hooks. Above this was placed parallel one of lesser dimensions, until a pyramid of
weapons gradually arose, tapering to a horsewhip.
“Thus all below was strength, and all above was grace.”
Lord Camelford received his visitants with great civility, and thanked them warmly for the
call; adding, that their evidence would be material, it being his intention to indict the
lieutenant for an assault. “All I can say in return is this,” exclaimed the peer with great
cordiality, “if ever I see you engaged in a row, upon my soul I’ll stand by you.” The
authors expressed themselves thankful for so potent an ally, and departed. In about a
fortnight afterwards (March 7, 1804), Lord Camelford was shot in a duel with Mr. Best.
[58] Veeshno. The late Mr. Samuel Whitbread, M.P., who committed suicide in 1815 during
a fit of insanity supposed to have been occasioned by overwork, and anxiety in connection
with the involved financial affairs of Drury Lane Theatre.
[59]Levy. An insolvent Israelite who threw himself from the top of the Monument a short
time before. An inhabitant of Monument-yard informed the writer, that he happened to be
standing at his door talking to a neighbour; and looking up at the top of the pillar,
exclaimed, “Why, here’s the flag coming down.” “Flag!” answered the other, “it’s a man.”
The words were hardly uttered when the suicide fell within ten feet of the speakers.
[60] Rembling—shifting;
[61] Raving—tearing up;
[62] Tewing—troubling oneself;
[63] Taving—fidgeting;
[64] Clatting—dirtying;
[65] Scratting—scratching.
[66] Ruddle—red chalk for tiled floor.
An affectionate term applied to Mr. Montagu Corry, (now Lord Rowton,) Secretary to
[67]
Lord Beaconsfield.
[68] The “Friend of Humanity” was intended for a satire on Mr. Tierney, M.P., for
Southwark, who in early times was amongst the most zealous of the Reformers. He was an
active member of the Society of Friends of the People, and drew up the justly celebrated
Petition in which that useful body laid before the House of Commons all the more striking
particulars of its defective title to be a body truly representing the people, which that house
then, as now, but with far less reason, assumed.
[69] Evidently Giles now reads his newspaper.
[70] This stanza was supplied by S. T. Coleridge.
[71] George Canning, of the Anti-Jacobin.
Mrs. Fitzherbert and Mary Robinson, the one the wife, the other the mistress of
[72]
George, Prince Regent.
[73] State Lotteries were then permitted, but were abolished in 1826.
[74] Alluding to a coarse skit published by Sir John Stoddart, in The New Times.
[75]The Bishop of Osnaburgh’s Doxy. The Duke of York was Bishop of Osnaburgh, but the
Doxy here mentioned alludes neither to Orthodoxy nor to Heterodoxy, but simply to Mrs.
Mary Anne Clarke, the wife of a stonemason. She became the mistress of this reverend
Bishop, who was also Commander of the Forces, and to whose memory a column was
erected—Heaven only knows why—at the junction of Waterloo-place and St. James’s-
park. The Duke got into debt, and Mrs. Clarke had to find money by the sale of
commissions in the Army—it is said, indeed, that she had also applications for bishoprics
and deaneries. The Duke of York had control of the Army, and as the regulation price of a
majority was £2,600 and of a captaincy £1,500 while Mrs. Clarke only charged £900 and
£700 respectively, she drove, for awhile, a thriving trade; but at last Colonel Wardle
brought the scandal before the House of Commons, and the Duke was obliged to resign his
post.
Two Boots, an allusion to George IV., and the next few lines refer to his ill-used wife,
[76]
Caroline of Brunswick, who died in August, 1821, shortly after his coronation.
[77] A favourite phrase of the worthy Poet Laureate.
“Dilworth and Dyche are both mad at thy quantities.” See Mr. Canning’s Parody on Mr.
[78]
Southey’s Dactylics.
[79]Not only in “Seditious Sapphics,” but in divers kinds of verse “without a name,”
happily unknown to English Poetry, before Mr. Southey.
“Botany Bay Eclogues,” written in the Laureate’s youth, full of thefts and theories
[80]
worthy of the Bay, though the poetry certainly is not.
[81]“Joan of Arc,” Mr. S. says, was written in six weeks, It may be so—it is easier to write
than to read such an epic.
 “Thalaba, the destroyer,” a hotch-potch of all the measures in the English (and a few
[82]
more) without rhyme. The catastrophe is precisely that of Tom Thumb.
[83]“Madoc,” a moral quarto, in which whatever is good for anything is stolen without
acknowledgment from Robertson’s History of America, whose elegant prose Mr. Southey
has traduced into barbarous blank, in applying all the striking incidents in the story of
Columbus, to a buccaneering Welsh Chieftain of the 12th century.
[84] “Roderick the last of the Goths.”
[85] “Wat Tyler” was republished about the time Mr. S. suffered the Laurel—which gave
rise to some edifying and curious contrasts of his new and old opinions.
[86] Mr. S. is guilty of sundry odes to the Holy Alliance, &c., &c.
[87]“Letter to W. Smith, M.P., from R. Southey, Esq.” of the contents of which most of our
readers are in a state of happy ignorance—for the publisher, Mr. Murray, is the only person
who suffered from Mr. S.’s “branding iron.” It was said of Joe Manton’s guns, that they
were not sold but given away. As much might Mr. Murray say of this famous Letter, except
that nothing of the Laureate’s resembles the said Joe’s in readiness to go off.
“A Poet’s Pilgrimage to Waterloo,” in which Mr. S. clearly explains Dryden’s bull
[88]
—“twice he slew the slain.”
[89]A right melancholy “Lay of the Laureate,” inflicted on the occasion of the nuptials of
the late Princess Charlotte and Prince Leopold.
[90]The author here alludes to that class of noble or opulent students, who at Oxford are
called Gentlemen Commoners, and at Cambridge Fellow Commoners.
A few of the names, indicated only by initials, are now difficult to identify, but most of
[91]
them refer to well-known individuals.
[92] John Borthwick Gilchrist, L.L.D., an eminent oriental scholar, died in 1841.
[93] Samuel Rogers, Poet and Banker, died in 1855.
[94] Francis, Lord Jeffrey, a Scotch Judge, chiefly remembered on account of his long
connection with, and numerous contributions to The Edinburgh Review, (the “Blue and
Buff”) of which he was one of the founders. In an article in that Review (July, 1806) he
denounced Tom Moore as “the most licentious of modern versifiers, and the most poetical
of the propagators of impiety.” On this charge, which was too true to be answered in any
other way, Moore challenged Jeffrey to fight a duel, and the two met at Chalk Farm, then a
favourite spot with duellists. The proceedings were stopped by the interference of the
police, when it was found that in loading the pistols, the bullets had been carefully omitted.
This circumstance became the talk of the town, and Moore, especially, was subjected to
much ridicule. Byron thus alludes to the duel:—
“Health to great Jeffrey; Heaven preserve his life,
To flourish on the fertile shores of Fife,
And guard it sacred in its future wars,
Since authors sometimes seek the field of Mars.
Can none remember that eventful day,
That ever glorious, almost fatal fray,
When Little’s leadless pistol met his eye,
 And Bow Street myrmidons stood laughing by?”
English Bards and Scotch Reviewers.
When Moore read these lines he was so incensed that he addressed a challenge to Lord
Byron, but by cautiously confiding it to a discreet friend it somehow never reached its
destination. Moore afterwards became very intimate with Byron, but he still had his
revenge, for he wrote Byron’s Life.
[95]George Birkbeck, M.D., president of the London Mechanics’ Institute, and founder of
the Birkbeck Institution in Southampton Buildings, was a physician by profession, and an
ardent advocate for the education of the people. He died in 1841.
[96]Lord Mayor Waithman, four times elected M.P. for London, a strenuous advocate for
popular rights. He died in 1833, and an obelisk was erected to his memory, in Ludgate
Circus.
[97]Jeremy Bentham, political economist, and father of the Utilitarian School of writers,
died in 1832.
Henry Brougham, Lord Chancellor, who took great interest in the spread of popular
[98]
education, and was very active in the formation of the London University.
[99]Pronounced, “Zo-ee mou sas ag-a-po,” a Romaic expression of tenderness. It means,
“My life, I love you!” which sounds very prettily in all languages, and is as much in
fashion in Greece at this day, as, Juvenal tells us, the first two words were amongst the
Roman ladies, whose erotic expressions were all Hellenized.
[100]The notorious Madame Rachel obtained large sums of money from a certain foolish
woman, on the pretences that she could be made “beautiful for ever” and obtain the hand of
the late Viscount Ranelagh in marriage. Neither Madam Rachel’s cosmetics, nor her
matrimonial schemes succeeded, and Madame Rachel was sentenced to a long term of
imprisonment for obtaining money under false pretences, whilst her victim became the
laughing stock of London. Madame Rachel died before her term of imprisonment expired.
[101] R. B. Sheridan.
[102] This would seem to show that poet and prophet are synonymous, the noble bard
having afterwards returned to England, and again quitted it, under domestic circumstances
painfully notorious. His good-humoured forgiveness of the Authors has already been
alluded to in the preface. Nothing of this illustrious poet, however trivial, can be otherwise
than interesting. “We knew him well.” At Mr. Murray’s dinner-table the annotator met him
and Sir John Malcolm, Lord Byron talked of intending to travel in Persia. “What must I do
when I set off?” said he to Sir John. “Cut off your buttons!” “My buttons! what, these
metal ones?” “Yes; the Persians are in the main very honest fellows; but if you go thus
bedizened, you will infallibly be murdered for your buttons! “At a dinner at Monk Lewis’s
chambers in the Albany, Lord Byron expressed to the writer his determination not to go
there again, adding, “I never will dine with a middle-aged man who fills up his table with
young ensigns, and has looking-glass panels to his book-cases.” Lord Byron, when one of
the Drury-lane Committee of Management, challenged the writer to sing alternately (like
the swains in Virgil) the praises of Mrs. Mardyn, the actress, who, by-the-bye, was hissed
off the stage for an imputed intimacy of which she was quite innocent.
The contest ran as follows:
 “Wake muse of fire, your ardent lyre,
Pour forth your amorous ditty,
But first profound, in duty bound,
Applaud the new committee;
Their scenic art from Thespis’ cart
All jaded nags discarding,
To London drove this queen of love,
Enchanting Mrs. Mardyn.

Though tides of love around her rove,

I fear she’ll choose Pactolus—
In that bright surge bards ne’er immerge,
So I must e’en swim solus.
‘Out, out, alas!’ ill-fated gas,
That shin’st round Govent Garden,
Thy ray how flat, compared with that
From eye of Mrs. Mardyn!”

And so on. The reader has, no doubt, already discovered “which is the justice, and which is
the thief.”
Lord Byron at that time wore a very narrow cravat of white sarsnet, with the shirt-collar
falling over it; a black coat and waistcoat, and very broad white trousers, to hide his lame
foot. These were of Russia duck in the morning, and jean in the evening. His watch-chain
had a number of small gold seals appended to it, and was looped up to a button of his
waistcoat. His face was void of colour; he wore no whiskers. His eyes were gray, fringed
with long black lashes; and his air was imposing, but rather supercilious. He undervalued
David Hume: denying his claim to genius on account of his bulk, and calling him, from the
Heroic epistle,
“The fattest hog in Epicurus’ sty.”
One of this extraordinary man’s allegations was, that “fat is an oily dropsy.” To stave off its
visitation, he frequently chewed tobacco in lieu of dinner, alleging that it absorbed the
gastric juice of the stomach, and prevented hunger. “Pass your hand down my side,” said
his lordship to the writer; “can you count my ribs?” “Every one of them.” “I am delighted
to hear you say so. I called last week on Lady ——; ‘Ah, Lord Byron,’ said she, ‘how fat
you grow!’ But you know Lady —— is fond of saying spiteful things!” Let this gossip be
summed up with the words of Lord Chesterfield, in his character of Bolingbroke: “Upon
the whole, on a survey of this extraordinary character, what can we say, but ‘Alas, poor
human nature!’”
His favourite Pope’s description of man is applicable to Byron individually:—
“Chaos of thought and passion all confused,
Still by himself abused or disabused:
Created part to rise and part to fall,
Great lord of all things, yet a slave to all:
Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled—
The glory, jest, and riddle of the world.”
The writer never heard him allude to his deformed foot except upon one occasion, when,
entering the green-room of Drury-lane, be found Lord Byron alone, the younger Byrne and
Miss Smith the dancer having just left him, after an angry conference about a pas seul.
“Had you been here a minute sooner,” said Lord B., “you would have heard a question
about dancing referred to me:—me! (looking mournfully downward) whom fate from my
birth has prohibited from taking a single step.”
[103] “Holland’s edifice.” The late theatre was built by Holland the architect. The writer
visited it on the night of its opening. The performances were Macbeth and the Virgin
Unmasked. Between the play and the farce, an excellent epilogue, written by George
Colman, was excellently spoken by Miss Farren. It referred to the iron curtain which was,
in the event of fire, to be let down between the stage and the audience, and which
accordingly descended, by way of experiment, leaving Miss Farren between the lamps and
the curtain. The fair speaker informed the audience, that should the fire break out on the
stage (where it usually originates), it would thus be kept from the spectators; adding, with
great solemnity—
“No! we assure our generous benefactors
’Twill only burn the scenery and the actors!”
A tank of water was afterwards exhibited, in the course of the epilogue, in which a wherry
was rowed by a real live man, the band playing—
“And did you not hear of a jolly young waterman?”
Miss Farren reciting—
“Sit still, there’s nothing in it,
We’ll undertake to drown you in a single minute.”
“O vain thought!” as Othello says. Notwithstanding the boast in the epilogue—
“Blow, wind—come, rack, in ages yet unborn,
Our castle’s strength shall laugh a siege to scorn”—
The theatre fell a victim to the flames within fifteen years from the prognostic! These
preparations against fire always presuppose presence of mind and promptness in those who
are to put them into action. They remind one of the dialogue in Morton’s Speed the Plough,
between Sir Able Handy and his son Bob:
“Bob. Zounds, the castle’s on fire!
Sir A. Yes.
Bob. Where’s your patent liquid for extinguishing fire?
Sir A. It is not fixed.
Bob. Then where’s your patent fire-escape?
Sir A. It is not fixed.
Bob. You are never at a loss?
Sir A. Never.
Bob. Then what do you mean to do?
Sir A. I don’t know.”
[104]A rather obscure mode of expression for Jew’s-harp; which some etymologists allege,
by the way, to be a corruption of Jaw’s-harp. No connection, therefore, with King David.
[105] “A four-in-hand” in early Editions.
 On the repeal of the Corn-laws Sir Robert Peel resigned, and was succeeded by Lord
[106]
John Russell.
[107] On the night previous to the action, a grand ball was given at Brussels.
[108]In October 1856, the Chinese captured 12 of the crew of the Lorcha Arrow in Canton
river, on the plea that they were pirates. Commissioner Yeh, the Chinese commander,
released the prisoners but refused to apologise for the outrage, thereupon Canton was
bombarded and other acts of war committed. In March 1857 the House of Commons, by a
majority of 19, censured Sir John Bowring, Governor of Hong Kong, for the “violent
measures” he had pursued. The Ministry (who took his part) dissolved Parliament, and in
the new one a large majority was returned to support Lord Palmerston, and the Chinese
War. Messrs. Cobden, Bright, Milner Gibson, Layard and many other leading opponents of
the Chinese policy were left without seats.
[109]Mr. Bright was absent on the continent for the benefit of his health during the whole
of the session, and telegraphed from Rome his intention to stand again for Manchester, but
he was defeated.
[110] This line was borrowed from Sidney Smith.
The last eight lines parody the first eight lines of Zelica’s song in Moore’s Lalla
[111]
Rookh.
[112] The Emma Mines.
[113] Sir Louis Cavagnari murdered in Cabul.
[114] The Nelson Column.
The system of the purchase of Commissions in the Army was not abolished until
[115]
1871.
[116]In connection with these burlesques, it may be noted that this prolific dramatic author
and inveterate punster was remotely connected with Lord Byron, to whom, indeed, he bore
a slight personal resemblance. Admiral John Byron, the grandfather of the poet, was the
great-great uncle of the author of “Our Boys,” in other words, both the poet and the
dramatist were lineal descendants of William the fourth Lord Byron.
[117] The Princess Beatrice.
[118] Lord Rowton.
[119]Tara is about six and a half miles south of Navan by road crossing the Boyne by
Kilcarn bridge. “Here, it is supposed,” writes Seward, “there was anciently a magnificent
royal palace, the residence of the Kings of Ireland, where triennial parliaments were held,
in which all the nobility, gentry, priests, etc. assembled, and here laws were enacted and
repealed, and the general advantage of the nation consulted. This place is otherwise called
Teagh-mor-Ragh, the great house of the King, and much celebrated in ancient Irish
history.”
[120] Binns was hangman at this time.
[121]Thomas Moore was a great “Diner-out,” and we have it on Byron’s authority “that he
dearly loved a Lord.”
 Seager—a distiller noted for his fine flavoured Old Tom, considered the best in the
[122]
metropolis: whether tossed off short, or mixed into grog.
The plant known as asphodel to the later Greeks used to be laid tombs as food for the
[123]
dead.
[124] Daniel O’Connell. M.P.
[125] A possible place of exile for the Ameer, as it was used for the King of Delhi’s prison.
“The Living Lustres appear to us a very fair imitation of the fantastic verses which that
[126]
ingenious person, Mr. Moore, indites when he is merely gallant, and, resisting the lures of
voluptuousness, is not enough in earnest to be tender.”—J , Edinburgh Review.
[127] This alludes to two massive pillars of verd antique which then flanked the
proscenium, but which were afterwards removed. Their colour reminds the bard of the
Emerald Isle, and this causes him (more suo) to fly off at a tangent, and Hibernicise the rest
of the poem.
 Transcriber’s Note:

This book was written in a period when many words had not become
standardized in their spelling. Words may have multiple spelling variations
or inconsistent hyphenation in the text. These have been left unchanged
unless indicated below. Misspelled words were not corrected.
Footnotes were renumbered sequentially and were moved to the end of
the book. Obvious printing errors, such as backwards, upside down, or
partially printed letters and punctuation, were corrected. Unprinted
punctuation and final stops missing at the end of sentences and
abbreviations were added. Commas were changed to stops at ends of
sentences and abbreviations. Duplicate words and letters at line endings or
page breaks were removed. Quotation marks were adjusted to match as
pairs.
Where there was a difference in punctuation, accents, hyphenation, etc.
between the index entry and the poem text, the index entry was adjusted to
match that of the poem.
There are two anchors to Footnote [14]. A word is not printed in
Footnote [123]: … used to be laid [in/on] tombs as food …
In the Contents of Parts, Page 187 was changed to Page 137 for Part 31.
In the index for March, March, Make-rags, the page number was
changed from 32 to 33.
“THE COMMONEWEAL, A Song for Unionists,” and “THE OLD
CAUSE, A Counterblast” were printed as side-by-side columns over three
pages. The poems were consolidated so that the stanzas of each poem are
sequential.
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