For law must our liberty give,
Though Law far a while may retard it
Even I shall obtain it, who live
By sapping the bulwarks that guard it.
This parody was given in Volume IV. (Part 41) of this collection, with George Cruikshank’s caricature of the Prince Regent,
“The Dandy of Sixty
Who bows with a grace,
And has taste in wigs, collars,
Cuirasses and lace,”
but it is necessary to repeat it here in its proper place, under the poet Cowper.