He fell in love with Polly-Tics,
And was an M. P. made.
He was a Radical one day,
But met a Tory crew;
His Polly-Tics he cast away,
And then turned Tory too.
Now Ben had tried for many a place
When Tories e'en were out;
But in two years the turning Whigs
Were turn'd to the right-about.