And he turn’d to “the room” of the Commons;

But he heard as he purposed to enter in there,

That “the Lords” had received a summons;

And he thought as a “quondam aristocrat”

He might peep at the peers, though to hear them were flat;

And he walk’d up the house so like one of our own,

That they say that he stood pretty near the throne.

He saw the Lord Liverpool[115] seemingly wise,

The Lord Westmoreland certainly silly,

And Johnny of Norfolk—a man of some size—