JENKY! that sage, whom mighty GEORGE declares,
Next SCHWELLENBURGEN, great on the back-stairs:
'Twas JENKINSON-ye Deacons, catch the sound!
Ye Treasury scribes, the sacred name rebound!
Ye pages, sing it-echo it, ye Peers!
And ye who best repeat, Right Reverend Seers!
Whose pious tongues no wavering fancies sway,
But, like the needle, ever point one way.

LANSDOWNE.

Thrice happy youth! secure from every change,
Thy beasts unnumber'd 'mid the Commons range;
Whilst thou, by Jove's ethereal spirit fir'd,

Or by sweet BRUNSWICK's sweeter breath inspir'd,
Another ORPHEUS every bosom cheer,

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And sticks, and stocks, and stones, roar Hear! hear! hear!

Rais'd by thy pipe, the savage tribes advance,

And Bulls and Bears in mystic mazes dance :

For me, no cattle now my steps attend;

E'en PRICE and PRIESTLEY, wearied, scorn their friend; 70 And these twin sharers of -my festive board,

Hope of my flock, now seek some richer Lord.

whose whole pious life has been spent in sustaining that beautiful and pathetic injunction of Scripture, "SERVE GOD, AND HONOUR THE "KING."

Line 68.-And Bulls and Bears in mystic mazes dance.] The beautiful allusion here made to that glorious state of doubt and obscurity in which - our youthful Minister's measures have been invariably involved, with its consequent operation on the stockholders, is here most fortunately introduced. What a striking contrast does Mr. PITT's conduct, in this particular, form to that of the Duke of PORTLAND, Mr. Fox, and your Nother plain matter of fact men!

PITT.

Sooner shall EFFINGHAM clean linen wear,
Or MORNINGTON without his star appear;
Sooner each prisoner BULLER's law escape;
Sooner shall QUEENSBERRY Commit a rape;
Sooner shall PoWNEY, HOWARD's noddle reach;
Sooner shall THURLOW hear his brother preach;
Sooner with VESTRIS, BOOTLE shall contend;
Sooner shall EDEN not betray his friend;
Sooner DUNDAS an Indian bribe decline;

Sooner shall I my chastity resign;

Sooner shall ROSE than PRETTYMAN lie faster,
Than PITT forget that JENKINSON's his master.

LANSDOWNE.

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Yet oft, in times of yore, I've seen thee stand
Like a tall May-pole 'mid the patriot band
While with reforms you tried each baneful art
To wring fresh sorrows from your Sovereign's heart
That heart, where every virtuous thought is known,
But modestly locks up, and keeps them all his own.

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'Twas then that PITT, for youth such warmth allows, To wanton Freedom paid his amorous vows;

Line 83.-Sooner shall Rose than PRETTYMAN lie faster.] This beautiful compliment to the happy art of embellishment, so wonderfully possessed by this par nobile fratrum, merits our warmest applause; and the skill of our author no where appears more conspicuous than in this line, where, in refusing to give to either the pre-eminence, he bestows the ne plus ultra of excellence on both.

Lull'd by her smiles, each offer I withstood,
And thought the greatest bliss my country's good.
'T was pride, not passion, madden'd in my brain,
I wish'd to rival Fox, but wish'd in vain ;
Fox, the dear object of bright Freedom's care,
Fox, still the favourite of the BRITISH fair;
But while with wanton arts the syr en strove
To fix my heart, and wile me to her love,
Too soon 1 found my hasty choice to blame,
-Freedom and Poverty are still the same-
While piles of massy gold his coffers fill,
Who votes subservient to his Sovereign's will.

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LANSDOWNE.

Enough, break off on RICHMOND I must wait;

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And DERBEIG too will think I stay too late :

Yet ere I go, some friendly aid I'd prove,

The last sad tribute of a master's love.

In that fam'd College, where true wisdom's found,
For MACHIAVELIAN policy renown'd,

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The pious pastors first fill'd LANSDOWNE's mind

With all the lore for Ministers design'd:

Then mark my words, and soon those Seers shall see
Their fam'd IGNATIUS far outdone in thee:

In every action of your life be shown,

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You think the world was made for you alone;

With cautious eye each character survey,

Woo to deceive, and promise to betray :

And ah! no more appear

Let no rash passion Caution's bounds destroy,
"THE ANGRY BOY!"

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PITT.

Yet stay-Behold, the heav'ns begin to lour,
And HOLLAND threatens with a thunder-show'r :
With me partake the feast, on this green box,
Full fraught with many a feast for factious Fox,
Each sapient hint that pious PRETTY gleans,
And the huge bulk of Rose's Ways and Means.
See too the smoky citizens approach,

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Pil'd with petitions view their Lord Mayor's coach;
E'en now their lengthen'd shadows reach this floor-
O that d-n'd SHOP-TAX-AUBREY, shut the door! 130

RONDEAU,

HUMBLY INSCRIBED

To the RIGHT HON. WILLIAM EDEN, ENVOY EXTRAORDINARY and MINISTER PLENIPOTENTIARY of Commercial Affairs at the Court of VERSAILLES.

OF EDEN lost, in ancient days,
If we believe what MOSES says,
A paltry pippin was the price;
One crab was bribe enough t' entice
Frail human kind from Virtue's ways.

But now, when PITT, th' all-perfect, sways,
No such vain lures the tempter lays,
Too poor to be the purchase twice

Of EDEN lost.

The Dev'l, grown wiser, to the gaze
Six thousand pounds a year displays,

And finds success from the device;
Finds this fair fruit too well suffice

To pay the peace and honest praise
Of EDEN lost.