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Amazed that one can read, that one can write :
So geese to gander prone obedience keep,
Hiss, if he hiss, and if he slumber, sleep.
Till having done whate'er was fit or fine,
Uttered a speech, and asked their friends to
dine;

Each hurries back to his paternal ground,
Content but for five shillings in the pound; 40
Yearly defeated, yearly hopes they give,
And all agree, Sir Robert cannot live.
Rise, rise, great W1, fated to appear,
Spite of thyself, a glorious minister!
Speak the loud language princes

And treat with half the

2

At length to B, kind, as to thy
Espouse the nation, you
What can thy H—3

Dress in Dutch

Though still he travels, on no bad pretence,
To show

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5

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Or those foul copies of thy face and tongue, Veracious W and frontless Young; Sagacious Bubb, so late a friend, and there 55 So late a foe, yet more sagacious HHervey and Hervey's school, F—, H

H

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8

Yea, moral Ebor, or religious Winton.'

-y,

How! what can O

-w, what can D

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60

The wisdom of the one and other chair,

1 Walpole.

2 Britain.-Carruthers.

3 Horace Walpole, the brother of Sir Robert.

4 Winnington.

5 Sir William Yonge.

Bubb Doddington, Lord Melcombe.

7 Francis Hare, Bishop of Chichester.

8 Fox, Henly, Hinton.

9 Blackburn, Archbishop of York, and Hoadley,

Bishop of Winchester.

10 Speaker Onslow and Lord Delaware.

2

-'s2 sager

N1 laugh, or D

Or thy dread truncheon, M.'s mighty peer? 3 What help from J's1 opiates canst thou draw,

Or H

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-k's quibbles voted into law? C., that Roman in his nose alone, Who hears all causes, B-, but thy own, Or those proud fools whom nature, rank, and fate

Made fit companions for the sword of state.

70

Can the light packhorse, or the heavy steer, The sousing prelate, or the sweating peer, Drag out, with all its dirt and all its weight, The lumbering carriage of thy broken state? Alas! the people curse, the carman swears, The drivers quarrel, and the master stares. The plague is on thee, Britain, and who tries To save thee, in the infectious office, dies. The first firm P-y, soon resigned his breath.

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Brave S- W loved thee, and was lied to death.

Good M-m-t's fate tore P―th from thy

2 Duke of Dorset. Perhaps the last word should

be "

3 Duke of Marlborough.

4 Sir Joseph Jekyll.

5 Lord Chancellor Hardwicke.

6

Spencer Compton, Lord Wilmington, President of the Council.-Carruthers.

7 Britain.

9 Lord Scarborough.

Daniel Pulteney.-Croker.

10 The Earl of Marchmont and his son, Lord Polwarth.

11 Sir William Wyndham.

Thy nobles Sl-s, thy Se-s bought with gold,1

Thy clergy perjured, thy whole people sold.
An atheist a ""'s ad

Blotch thee all o'er, and sink

3

2

Alas! on one alone our all relies,3
Let him be honest, and he must be wise
Let him no trifler from his

Nor like his .

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school,

still a . .

Be but a man! unministered, alone,

And free at once the senate and the throne; 90
Esteem the public love his best supply,
A's true glory his integrity;

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Rich with his . . in his . . strong,"
Affect no conquest, but endure no wrong.
Whatever his religion or his blood,
His public virtue makes his title good.
Europe's just balance and our own may stand,
And one man's honesty redeem the land.

1 Thy noble slaves, thy senates bought, &c.
Courthope suggests for this couplet:

2

An atheist court, a thief's administration, Blotch thee all o'er and sink thee to damnation. 3 The Pretender.- Ward.

4 Bowles suggests:

Let him no trifler from his father's school,
Nor, like his father's father, still a fool-

5 Probably "Rich with his Britain, in his Britain strong.-Courthope.

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