Or think that Mr. Gladstone’s plan is equal to my way!
Poor man! What use is it for him his played-out brains to tax,
When all that Birmingham can give so notably he lacks?
He was not born there, has not been its Alderman or Mayor,
Nor tasted of those honours which our family still share.
O, foolish Gladstone! to suppose that any chance he runs
With me, the pride of Brummagem, and greatest of her sons!
And head of such a family, &c.
“And what can England be about to not at once agree
To simply leave her welfare to my family and me?