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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At clubs and taverns sweetly sings

Of self—while yawning Whigs attend—

Self first, last, midst, and without end;[^[154]]

How Bedford piped, ill-fated Bard;[^[155]]

Half-drown’d, in empty Palace-yard;

How Lansdowne, nature’s simple child,

At Bowood trills his wood-notes wild—[^[156]]

How these and more (a phrenzied choir)

Sweep with bold hand Confusion’s lyre,

Till madding crowds around them storm