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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[Clapping them on the back.

Waiter. But hist! we are observed.

Trou. Let us by a song conceal our purposes.

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Cas. Hist! hist! nor let the airs that blow

From night’s cold lungs our purpose know!

Pudd. Let Silence, mother of the dumb,

Beef. Press on each lip her palsied thumb!

Wait. Let Privacy, allied to sin,

That loves to haunt the tranquil inn—