Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin / Comprising the Celebrated Political and Satirical Poems, of the Rt. Hons. G. Canning, John Hookham Frere, W. Pitt, the Marquis Wellesley, G. Ellis, W. Gifford, the Earl of Carlisle, and Others.

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By equal ponderosity behind.——

But hold, my Muse; nor farther these pursue!—

Great Editors, we have digress’d from you;

From you, to whom our trivial lays belong,

From you, the sole inspirers of our song!

Proceed:—urge on the same vindictive strain,

To gain the applauses of great Malmesbury’s train;

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With jaundiced eyes the noblest patriot scan:

Proceed—be more opprobrious if you can;