The King of    rvetot 
 
 
Emile Bayard, Artist 
 
 
S. Regnier, Engraver 
 
 
   I T was a King of Yvetot 
        Whom few historians name; 
      A sleeper sound, a waker slow, 
    No dreams had be of fame. 
By Betty's hand with nightcap crown'd, 
He snored in state the whole clock round 
            Profound. 
Ha! ha! ha! ha!     Ho ! ho! ho ! ho! 
A Kingdom match for Yvetot! 
            Ho! bo! 
 
 
  Four goodly meals a day, within 
    His palace-walls of mud, 
  He stow 'd beneath his royal skin, 
    And on an ass-his stud-, 
In triumph through his realm would log, 
His guard, with vigilance agog, 
            A dog! 
Ha! ha! ha! ha! Ho! ho! ho! ho! 
A Kingdom match for Yvetot! 
            Ho! ho! 
 
 
B&ranger's "Roi d' Yvetot " (Brough's Translation).