Covent-Garden’s clock strikes One!
Heed, oh heed my earnest warning,
Ere England is, like France, undone!
To St. Stephen’s quick repairing,
Your dissembled mania end;
And, your errors past forswearing,
Stand at length your Country’s Friend!”
[The preceding ballad is parodied from the one by Glover, entitled—
ADMIRAL HOSIER’S GHOST.
As near Porto-Bello lying