From Fugitive Verse and Prose,
by John Peter Roberdeau. Chichester, 1803.
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The Patriot’s Progress.
——St. Stephens is a stage,
And half the opposition are but players:
For clap-traps, and deceptions, and effects,
Fill up their thoughts throughout their many parts,
Their acts being sev’n. At first the Demagogue,
Railing and mouthing at the hustings’ front:
And then the cogging Candidate, with beer,