Fifty Bab Ballads
1876
W. S. Gilbert's comic verse, collected before the Savoy operas made him famous: fifty ballads of curates, cannibals, sailors, and sorcerers, first printed in the magazine Fun. The rhythms and absurdities that later became the patter songs of Gilbert and Sullivan are already here.
- Preface
- Captain Reece
- The Rival Curates
- Only a Dancing Girl
- TO A LITTLE MAID By a Policeman
- The Troubadour
- FERDINANDO AND ELVIRA; Or , the Gentle Pieman
- To My Bride (Whoever She May Be.)
- Sir Macklin
- THE YARN OF THE “NANCY BELL.”
- The Bishop of Rum-Ti-Foo
- The Precocious Baby. a Very True Tale
- TO PHŒBE.
- Baines Carew, Gentleman
- Thomas Winterbottom Hance
- A Discontented Sugar Broker
- The Pantomime “Super” to His Mask
- The Ghost, the Gallant, the Gael, and the Goblin
- The Phantom Curate. a Fable
- King Borria Bungalee Boo
- Bob Polter
- The Story of Prince Agib
- ELLEN M c JONES ABERDEEN
- Peter the Wag
- To the Terrestrial Globe. by a Miserable Wretch
- Gentle Alice Brown
- Mister William
- The Bumboat Woman’s Story
- Lost Mr. Blake
- The Baby’s Vengeance
- The Captain and the Mermaids
- Annie Protheroe. a Legend of Stratford-Le-Bow
- An Unfortunate Likeness
- The King of Canoodle-Dum
- The Martinet
- The Sailor Boy to His Lass
- The Reverend Simon Magus
- My Dream
- The Bishop of Rum-Ti-Foo Again
- The Haughty Actor
- The Two Majors
- Emily, John, James, and I. a Derby Legend
- The Perils of Invisibility
- The Mystic Selvagee
- Phrenology
- The Fairy Curate
- The Way of Wooing
- Hongree and Mahry. a Recollection of a Surrey Melodrama
- ETIQUETTE.
- At a Pantomime. by a Bilious One
- Haunted