Слике страница
PDF
ePub
[merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small]

Odes upon Cash, Corn, Catholics, etc.

AMATORY COLLOQUY BETWEEN BANK AND DIALOGUE BETWEEN A SOVEREIGN AND A ONE POUND NOTE.

GOVERNMENT.

[merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small]

AN EXPOSITION TO LORD KING.

Quem das finem, Rex magne, laborum ?-VIRGIL.

low can you, my Lord, thus delight to torment all The Peers of the realm about cheapening their corn,' When you know, if one has n't a very high rental,

'Tis hardly worth while being very high born!

Why bore them so rudely, each night of your life,
On a question, my Lord, there's so much to abhor in?
A question-like asking one, How is your wife? ■
At once so confounded domestic and foreign.

As to weavers, no matter how poorly they feast,
But Peers, and such animals fed up for show
Like the well-physick'd elephant, lately deceased),
Take a wonderful quantum of cramming, you know.

You might see, my dear Baron, how bored and distrest
Were their high noble hearts by your merciless tale,
When the force of the agony wrung ev'n a jest

From the frugal Scotch wit of my Lord L-d-le ! 2

Bright Peer! to whom Nature and Berwickshire gave A humour, endow'd with effects so provoking, That, when the whole House looks unusually grave,

[blocks in formation]

You may always conclude that Lord L-d-le's We make this funny old Fund worth robbing.»>

joking!

And then, those unfortunate weavers of Perth

Not to know the vast difference Providence dooms Between weavers of Perth and Peers of high birth, 'Twixt those who have heir-looms, and those who've but looms!

To talk now of starving, as great At—l said—3

(And the nobles all cheer'd, and the bishops all wonder'd)

When, some years ago, he and others had fed

Of these same hungry devils about fifteen hundred!

It follows from hence-and the Duke's very words Should be publish'd wherever poor rogues of this

craft are,

That weavers, once rescued from starving by Lords,
Are bound to be starved by said Lords ever after.

When Rome was uproarious, her knowing patricians
Made Bread and the Circus a cure for each row;
But not so the plan of our noble physicians,

No Bread and the Tread-mill's the regimen now.

So cease, my dear Baron of Ockham, your prose,
As I shall my poetry-neither convinces;
And all we have spoken and written but shows,
When you tread on a nobleman's corn, how he

winces!

See the proceedings of the Lords, Wednesday, March 1, 1826, when Lord King was severely reproved by several of the noble Peers, for making so many speeches against the Corn Laws.

This noble Earl said, that when he heard the petition came from ladies' boot and shoe-makers, he thought it must be against the corns' which they inflicted on the fair sex.

3 The Duke of Athol said, that at a former period, when these weavers were in great distress, the landed interest of Perth had supported 1500 of them. It was a poor return for these very men how to petition against the persons who had fed them." An improvement, we flatter ourselves, on Lord L.'s joke.

[blocks in formation]
[merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small]
[blocks in formation]

«I, said the Bank, though he play'd me a prank,
While I have a rag poor Rob shall be roll'd in 't;
With many a pound I'll paper him round,
Like a plump rouleau-without the gold in 't.

ALL IN THE FAMILY WAY,

A NEW PASTORAL BALLAD.

(Sung in the character of Britannia.)

The Public Debt is due from ourselves to ourselves, and re-
solves itself into a Family Account.-Sir Robert Peel's Letter.
TUNE-My banks are all furnish'd with bees.
My banks are all furnish'd with rags,
So thick-even Freddy can't thin 'em:
I've torn up my old money-bags,

Having little, or nought, to put in 'em.
My tradesmen are smashing by dozens,
But this is all nothing, they say;
For bankrupts, since Adam, are cousins,-
So it's all in the family way.

[blocks in formation]
« ПретходнаНастави »