To Tooke he ow’d his fortune and reverse:
He gain’d from John, ’twas all his portion—shame;
John gain’d from him, ’twas all he wish’d—his purse.
“No further seek his merits to disclose,
Or draw his frailties from their dread abode;
Where they have met the awful test he chose,
The judgment of his country and his God.”
Alfred.
From The Morning Post. London. May 20, 1811.
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