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,