God bless the Regent and the Duke of York!

Ye Muses! by whose aid I cried down Fox,

Grant me in Drury Lane a private box,

Where I may loll, cry bravo, and profess

The boundless powers of England's glorious press;

While Afric's sons exclaim, from shore to shore,

"Quashee ma boo!" the slave-trade is no more.

In fair Arabia (happy once, now stony,

Since ruined by that arch apostate, Boney),

A phœnix late was caught: the Arab host