And teach her hopeful son the “Rule of Three.”[122]

But I had heard of sinecures, and long’d

To follow in the track that leads to Court,

And Heaven soon granted what I so desir’d:

The Gallic sun rose from chaotic night,

And by its blaze, a horde of Sans Culottes

Rush’d, like a torrent, o’er the affrighted world—

Threaten’g all crowned heads. The Courier wrote

The Jacobins to succour. I, on place

Intent, wrote, in the Anti-Jacobin,