In another are these lines:
"When Charles did seem to fill the throne,
This tyrant Tom made England groan."
A third says:
"Yorkshire Tom was rais'd to honour,
For what cause no creature knew;
He was false to the royal donor
And will be the same to you.">[
805 ([return])
[ A Whig poet compares the two Marquesses, as they were often called, and gives George the preference over Thomas.]
"If a Marquess needs must steer us,
Take a better in his stead,
Who will in your absence cheer us,
And has far a wiser head.">[
806 ([return])
[ "A thin, illnatured ghost that haunts the King.">[