They paint him better than I can,

Wabbling from side to side.

“Each hour a different face he wears,

Now in a fury, now in tears,

Now laughing, now in sorrow,

Now he’ll command, and now obey,

Bellows for liberty to-day,

And roars for power to-morrow.

“At noon the Tories had him tight,

With staunchest Whigs he supped at night,