He hears ye are some of ye veering away.
If this—and there’s Reason to fear it—be true,
I’d have ye consider what end ye pursue;
You’ll find you’ve a very bad bargain at last,
Despis’d for the present and damn’d for the past. 90
Ye Commons, your Nation’s most able Protectors,
Ye generous Elected, ye well-paid Electors,
Your Patron here greets you, and, though but in Song,
He praises the Path ye have mov’d in so long—
A Path he has form’d with such exquisite Care