Rise, rise, great W----,[102] fated to appear, Spite of thyself a glorious minister! Speak the loud language princes ... And treat with half the ... At length to B---- kind as to thy ... Espouse the nation, you ...
What can thy H---[103] ... Dress in Dutch ... 50
Though still he travels on no bad pretence, To shew ...
Or those foul copies of thy face and tongue, Veracious W----[104] and frontless Young;[105] Sagacious Bub,[106] so late a friend, and there So late a foe, yet more sagacious H----?[107] Hervey and Hervey's school, F----, H---y,[108] H---n[109] Yea, moral Ebor,[110] or religious Winton. How! what can O---w,[111] what can D----, The wisdom of the one and other chair, 60 N----[112] laugh, or D---s[113] sager, Or thy dread truncheon M----'s[114] mighty peer? What help from J----'s[115] opiates canst thou draw, Or H---k's[116] quibbles voted into law?
C----,[117] that Roman in his nose alone, Who hears all causes, B----,[118] but thy own, Or those proud fools whom nature, rank, and fate Made fit companions for the sword of state.
Can the light packhorse, or the heavy steer, The sowzing prelate, or the sweating peer, 70 Drag out, with all its dirt and all its weight, The lumbering carriage of thy broken state? Alas! the people curse, the carman swears, The drivers quarrel, and the master stares.
The plague is on thee, Britain, and who tries To save thee, in the infectious office _dies_. The first firm P---y soon resign'd his breath, Brave S---w[119] loved thee, and was lied to death. Good M-m-t's[120] fate tore P---th[121] from thy side, And thy last sigh was heard when W---m[122] died. 80
Thy nobles sl---s,[123] thy se---s[124] bought with gold Thy clergy perjured, thy whole people sold. An atheist [symbol] a [symbol]'s ad ... [125] Blotch thee all o'er, and sink ...
Alas! on one alone our all relies, Let him be honest, and he must be wise, Let him no trifler from his school, Nor like his ... still a ... Be but a man! unminister'd, alone, And free at once the senate and the throne; 90 Esteem the public love his best supply, A [symbol]'s[126] true glory his integrity: Rich _with_ his ... _in_ his ... strong, Affect no conquest, but endure no wrong. Whatever his religion[127] or his blood, His public virtue makes his title good. Europe's just balance and our own may stand, And one man's honesty redeem the land.