For the Black Wig and her Character white.
Besides, 'tis no merit one's surplus to share,
Then let us give that which the least we can spare
To the Black Wig and her Character white.
For me I have changed all my friends at the brunt,
From Fox, Pitt, and Burke, down to Cobbett and Hunt,
As fickle in age as I was in my youth:
So freely subscribe my political truth
To the Black Wig and her Character white.
Old Tierney set down, with a sorrowful face,