It is the cause, by Jove, it is the cause;
Let me not name it to you, ye wild Rads.
It is the cause.
Put out Lord John and then put in Bob Peel.
Yet I’ll not oust the Whigs,
Nor force the really able ones to go:
I’d rather aid them with some sticking plaster.
Yet he must out—or he’ll betray more men.
Put out Lord John and then—put out the Whigs!
If I extinguish thee, thou flaming minister,