But He liked train-oil in his salads,

And gave an enlightened patronage to bad oysters.

And he had Walpole as a Minister:

Consistent in his Preference for every kind of Corruption.

GEORGE II

In most things I did as my father had done,

I was false to my wife and I hated my son:

My spending was small and my avarice much,

My kingdom was English, my heart was High Dutch:

At Dettingen fight I was known not to blench