“I’d give a world of sugar cane,
That Mat. Lewis were alive again.”
He was for some time M.P. for Hindon, but he obtained no parliamentary distinction.
The following, which is his best known poem, first appeared in his novel The Monk:—
ALONZO THE BRAVE,
And the Fair Imogine.
A warrior so bold, and a virgin so bright,
Convers’d as they sat on the green;
They gaz’d on each other with tender delight;
Alonzo the Brave was the name of the knight;