The simple manners of our English race—
Extoll’d great Duncan, and, supremely brave,
Whelm’d Buonaparte’s pride beneath the wave?
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I swear by all the youths that Malmesbury[[45]] chose,
By Ellis’[[46]] sapient prominence of nose,
By Morpeth’s gait, important, proud, and big—
By Leveson Gower’s crop-imitating wig,
That, could the pow’rs which in those numbers shine,
Could that warm spirit animate my line,