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 mine was the share thereof whereover my fingers closed.

Ed.]

THE DUKE AND THE TAXING-MAN.[^[27]]

Whilome there liv’d in fair Englonde

A Duke of peerless wealth,

And mickle care he took of her

Old Constitution’s health.

Full fifty thousand pounds and more

To him his vassals paid,

But ne to King, ne Countree, he