If, with the fat of spitted priests,

I have enriched your genial feasts;

Or politician’s sav’riest part,

Has warmed the “cockles” of your heart:

Oh, grant me, now, this precious boon,

(Again I may not ask you soon,)

May I before the lieges spread

The merits of the Copperhead!

It is, indeed, a boon you ask,

And mine will be an arduous task: