To sit within the Commons’ House, and get
A place; and luck gave what my sire denied.—
Some thirteen years ago, or ere my fingers
Had learn’d to mix a potion, or to bleed,
I flatter’d Pitt; I cring’d, and sneak’d, and fawn’d,
And thus became the Speaker. I alone,
With pompous gait, and peruke full of wisdom,
Th’ unruly Members could control, or call
The House to order.
“Tir’d of the Chair, I sought a bolder flight,