His Speech should hit like double-headed Shot.
If seated snugly on the Treasury Bench,
‘This mighty Force,’ yet did his friends Retrench;
But if on t’ other side he took his Post,
‘This mighty Force,’ th’ enormous sums it Cost.
He culled high-sounding words too, for th’ occasion,
Material, Bivouac, Demoralization.
Yet poor Sir John, tho’ much he’d heard, and read,
Felt still aware how treacherous was his Head;
Tho’ yet he laboured like a Brewer’s Dray-Horse,