“The great Earl of Dudley”—huzza! and huzza!!!
’Twas given by Blackwell in a splendid oration,
Boldly deliver’d without ostentation,
Free from all twaddle and mean adulation.
He gained great applause from beginning to end,
And the Earl was pleased to call him “his friend.”
(This Blackbird, so flighty, sagacious, and clever,
In crossing a Brooke, once display’d a white feather.)
But what said the Earl in reply to the toast?
Magnanimous sentiments! could the town boast