Some Pelham, dreadful to his country’s foes.
From prince and people to command applause,
’Midst ermin’d peers to guide the high debate,
To shield Britannia’s and Religion’s laws,
And steer with steady course the helm of state
Fate yet forbids; nor circumscribes alone
Their growing virtues, but their crimes confines;
Forbids in Freedom’s veil t’ insult the throne,
Beneath her mask to hide the worst designs,
To fill the madding crowd’s perverted mind,