What Cannon firing, and what Conflagration;
Such shouts, such grinning, ’mongst all Ranks of Men,
You’d thought they ne’er would shut their mouths again.
Such horizontal stretching of each Muzzle,
Such Drinking healths, such roaring, and such Guzzle.
But should some small mishap be buzz’d auricular,
The horizontal would be perpendicular.
John, who in most things had his share of Nouse,
His humble duty left at Carlton House;
And was inform’d, with certain pompous gravity