Answer: Barrow (Bar-Row).
The eminent statesman, George Canning, is responsible for our next.
Though weak to a proverb my first has been reckoned,
The game is so constantly made of my second;
Yet, to hosts without number, my whole bade defiance,
And the world stood amazed at the beauteous alliance.
Answer: Waterloo (Water-Loo).
Archbishop Whately thus tersely arranges our next:—
My first is equality, my second, inferiority; my whole, superiority.