No, Joseph Chamberlain, near Premier, no.
You promise Gladstone quarter? Not for Joe.
Perpend this allegory—pauca verba.
A vagrom Viper, latitans in herba,
Seeing a grand old Mongoose passing, cried,
“Come, let’s be amicable—side by side
Excogitate alliance—great and good,
Rule the whole roast, dukes of this wandering wood.”—
“With pleasure,” put in t’other. While they went
En camarade, ostensibly content,