Of Walpole and his tools?
He was a knave indeed,—what then?
He'd parts,—but this new set of men
A'n't only knaves, but fools.
III.
On Pulteney's Acceptance of a Peerage, July, 1742.
Source.—A Collection of Poems, principally consisting of the most celebrated pieces of Sir Charles Hanbury Williams, 1763, p. 36. The names in the British Museum copy, from which this and the following are transcribed, are filled in by Horace Walpole, to whom this copy belonged.
I'm not the man you knew before,
For I am P[ultene]y now no more,
My titles hide my name.
(Oh how I blush to own my case!)