Sweet Borough of Tamworth.
(The following song, supposed to be sung by the late Sir Robert Peel, who long represented Tamworth, is a parody of “Fanny of Timmol.”
Sweet borough of Tamworth, when first I go in
To the dear House of Commons in which I was hurl’d,
I found it a place of such pelf and such sin,
And for humbug the funniest place in the world.
For the Minister’s lips to their destiny true,
Seem’d to know I was born to be sold as anothers;
And to put me in mind of what I ought to do,
They whispered rich places for me and my brothers.