6.
"Have they no higher game in view,
My boy, Hobby O? (bis)
Oh yes; to stir the people up,
And then to head the mob-by O.
7.
"But sure they'll at their ruin pause,
My boy, Hobby O? (bis)
No! they'd see King and Parliament
Both d—d without a sob-by O!
8.
But, if they fail, they'll be hanged up,
My boy, Hobby O? (bis)
Why, then, they'll swing, like better men,
And that will end the job-by O!
Philo-Radicle."
April 15, 1820."
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ADDRESSED BY LORD BYRON TO MR. HOBHOUSE ON HIS ELECTION FOR WESTMINSTER.[114]
Would you go to the house by the true gate,
Much faster than ever Whig Charley went;
Let Parliament send you to Newgate,
And Newgate will send you to Parliament.
April 9, 1820.
[First published, Miscellaneous Poems, printed for J. Bumpus, 1824.]