How will they shrink, that sacred band,
Dismayed, disgusted, disappointed!
The parvenu Protector thrust
Amidst the true Porphyrogeniti?
How will it stir right royal dust!
The mutton-eating king's amenity
Were hardly proof against this slur.
William the thief, Rufus the bully,
The traitor John, and James the cur,—
Their royal purple how 'twill sully