With half the danger as you walk’d along,

With rage and threat’ning but from half the throng.

This you might do, and not your fortune mend,

For where you lost a foe you gain’d a friend;

And to distress you, vex you, and expose,

Election-friends are worse than any foes;

The party-curse is with the canvass past,

But party-friendship, for jour grief, will last.

Friends of all kinds; the civil and the rude,

Who humbly wish, or boldly dare t’intrude: