The Choice Humorous Works, Ludicrous Adventures, Bons Mots, Puns, and Hoaxes of Theodore Hook

by Theodore Edward Hook

I tried to expose

My friends and my foes,

As equally infamous men—men,

As equally infamous men.

The Whigs they cashier'd me, and then, oh then,

The Whigs they cashier'd me, and then

Grey haughtily swore

He'd trust me no more,

Not even with cutting a pen—pen,

Not even with cutting a pen.