With it to the Commons hie—

Need I state the reason why?—

And stick it in Sir Michael’s crest.

Gather next a bunch of Rue,

To his speech a fitting cue—

Garland grim and strange to see,

For the head of Salisbury.

It will suit his bitter brows,

Now they’ve lost their laurel boughs—

(Smith, too, lost his—what a pity!—