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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Your hat assumes a prouder cock,

Like Pistol’s (if ’twere bigger).

III.

Tell then your stories, strange and new,[^[65]]

Your Fathers fame[^[66]] shall vouch them true;

So shall the Dublin Papers;

Swear by the stars[^[67]] that saw the sight,

That infant thousands die each night,[^[68]]

While troops blow out their tapers.

IV.