Our boasted laws I hate and curse,

Bad from the first, by age grown worse,

I pant and sigh for univers-[[187]]

al suffrage.

Wakefield[[188]] I love—adore Horne Tooke,

With pride on Jones[[189]] and Thelwall[[190]] look,

And hope that they, by hook or crook,

Will prosper.

But they deserve the worst of ills,

And all th’ abuse of all our quills,