To provide, by a stroke of the pen!

In return—if a living he fish up

Why we're both of us "hon'rable men."

Even Cabinet Ministers often

Are proud to admit us as friends,

In those social enjoyments which soften

Official hauteur, till it bends:

What pleasure to give one's cadetships

To a hard-worked First Lord—and if then,

One's sons, now on half-pay, should get ships,