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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E’en[^[93]] Pitt, made candid by champaign,

Shall hail Adair “the clever”.

VI.

Though criticism assail my name,

And luckless blunders blot my fame,[^[94]]

O![^[95]] make no needless bustle;

As vain and idle it would be

To waste one pitying thought on me,

As to[^[96]] “unPLUMB a Russell”.[^[97]]

[LYRICS OF HORACE, BOOK II., ODE XX.