Shall have a nod whene’er we meet,
And at my balls shall shake his feet?
My Member.
Who, ’neath such favours shower’d en masse,
From mere humanity shall pass,
And be my man, my ox, my ass?
My Member.
Punch, June 5, 1852.
[The Viscount Castlereagh, eldest son of the Marquis of Londonderry, sat as the member for County Down from 1826 to 1852, and the seat had always, until then, been regarded as family property.]
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