Which they, however, will take care that neither House pass through.
Go then, My Lords and Gentlemen, go, and remember, pray,
That the chief end and aim why you are summoned here to-day
Is that you may vote fresh “Supplies,” by which, if well expended,
My Ministers’ sweet spell of power may further be extended,
And thus put off, for one more year, that reckoning with the nation,
Which Tories and D.L.’s await with such grim trepidation.
Truth. February 21, 1889.
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An answer to the Proclamation calling out the Reserve Forces was