Another political imitation of this ode appeared in The St. James’s Chronicle relating to John, Earl of Bute, the Prime Minister in 1762, who was so bitterly attacked by Junius, and John Wilkes. This nobleman, who had been tutor to George III., was nicknamed “Jack Boot,” and in the popular caricatures of the day was represented as a large jack boot surmounted by his head.
The parody possesses little interest, it commences thus:—
’Twas on the lofty Treasury’s side
Where Walpole’s basest arts had tried
The wistful Briberies that flow;
Most ambitious of the Plaidy kind,
The upshot Bute reclined,
Gazed on the gold below.
His country’s hopes his joy declared,
His freckled face, his grizzled beard,