They skinned you when you wrote Lothair."

He answered, with his nose in air,

"Endymion!"

"Oh stay," the Tory said, "and make

That wicked GLADSTONE writhe and quake."

A twinkle flash'd from out his eye:

"I'll give him rope," he said, "and try

Endymion!"

"Beware the day they may begin

To break the Treaty of Berlin!"