His little club, and in the chair preside.

In private business his commands prevail,

On public themes his reasoning turns the scale;

Assenting silence soothes his happy ear,

And, in or out, his party triumphs here.

Nor here th’ infectious rage for party stops,

But flits along from palaces to shops;

Our weekly journals o’er the land abound,

And spread their plague and influenzas round;

The village, too, the peaceful, pleasant plain,