The World’s Wit and Humor: An Encyclopedia in 15 Volumes. 1906.
Catullus (c. 84c. 54 B.C.)The Roman Cockney
Stipends Anius even on opportunity shtipends,
Ambush as hambush still Anius used to declaim;
Then, hoped fondly the words were a marvel of articulation,
While with an h immense hambush arose from his heart.
So his mother of old, so e’en spoke Liber his uncle,
Credibly; so grandsire, grandam, alike did agree.
Lightly the lips those words, slightly could utter again.
None was afraid any more of a sound so clumsy returning;
Sudden a solemn fright seized us: a message arrives.
“News from Sonia country; the sea, since Anius entered,
Changed; ’twas Ionian once, now ’twas Hionian all.”