Saw, or thought that he saw, in two buckets,
The two gasping nations of England and France,
Not worth by their warfare three ducats.
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This is the first of five verses of an old political parody, which originally appeared in The Morning Chronicle, but was afterwards republished in The Spirit of the Public Journals for 1812. (Volume XVI.)
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Mary Anderson.[69]
(A parody of Cowper’s lines “To Mary.”)
She came; she trod our English land:
A masterpiece from Phidias’ hand—