The CRIME who labour’d night and day.

FRAUD own’d (tho’ loth to speak his praise)

He gain’d his point by secret ways;

His voice in cities had been heard,

And oft in senates been preferr’d!

Yet much derision had he borne,

Treated by honest fools with scorn;

His influence on the western shore

Was not so great as heretofore:

He own’d each side alike assail’d,