Yet who saw me, with real or fancied alarms,
Take the fool to my councils, the beast to my arms,
Date Obolum Belisario.
Ye who heard me declare the Subscribers of Reeves
Were a scoundrel collection of cut-throats and thieves,
Yet who saw me immediately after repair,
And SUBSCRIBE at the Long-Room in Hanover Square,
Date Obolum Belisario.
Ye who heard—when Invasion was close at our door,
And Parker and Liberty rul’d at the Nore—