But Castlereagh whispered, if once you should rat,

Dear Peel, you can never get office again.

Oh Liverpool, Castlereagh, never were any

Statesmen more pious, to place-men more true,

Of snug roguish places, you both had so many,

That my conscience was drill’d like a sieve through and through.

But Bexley would preach, and Eldon so grieved,

That a suckling like me should be lost in a jiffey—

And Cumberland swore they could not be deceived

If they sent me to humbug the folks on the Liffey.