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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And, ’midst its shrubs and vacant stalls,

And proud Piazza’s crumbling walls,

Hear trulls and watchmen snoring!

Parent of wine, and gin, and beer,[^[169]]

The nymphs of Billingsgate you cheer;

Naiads robust and hearty;

As Brookes’s chairmen fit to wield

Their stout oak bludgeons in the field,

To aid our virtuous party.

Mortals! no common voice you hear;[^[170]]