Britons who have often bled In the cause that Hampden led, Welcome to your gory bed, Or to victory, Now’s the day, and now’s the hour, See the front of battle lour, See approach your tyrant’s power, Chains and slavery! Who would be a traitor knave? Who would fill a coward’s grave? Who so base as be a slave? Traitor, coward, turn and flee! Who at Liberty’s sweet cry Freedom’s sword would raise on high? Freeman stand, or freeman die, Hark! your chief cries “on with me!” By oppression’s woes and pains, By your sons in servile chains, We will drain our dearest veins, But they shall be free! Lay your proud oppressors low! Tyrants fall in every blow! For the cause of God below, Is the cause of Liberty. From _The Republican_, October 8, 1819. R. Carlile, printer, 55, Fleet Street, London. ―――― GLEE. Folks who’ve oft at Dolby’s fed! Folks who’ve nibbled Batson’s bread! Folks who’ve ta’en a Hummum’s bed! Come not o’er the sea: Victuals here are but so, so; Hollands, too, run very low; Scarce is coffee and _cocoa_; Sojourn where you be. Now’s the time and now’s the hour, For little bread, there being no flour; Liberty’s a glorious dower―― Though ragged, let’s be free! We will walk the unlopp’d wood, And taste what Nature grows for food―― Grumbling here does little good! So hail, glad Liberty! From _The Fancy_, a selection from the Poetical remains of the late Peter Corcoran, 1820. The same volume also contains a poem entitled _The Fields of Tothill: A Fragment_. This is written in imitation of Lord Byron’s _Don Juan_. ―――― In 1823 the John Bull newspaper contained a parody of “Scots wha hae,” entitled “Wilson’s Subscription,” but the subject is obsolete, and the parody inferior. It commenced: Whigs! who have with Michael dined, Whigs! who have with Bennet whined, Hasten now to raise the wind, For a Knight’s dismissed. In the same year another skit at the Whig party appeared. The allusions it contains are to Lord Grey, who eventually passed the Reform Bill, Joseph Hume, the political economist and exposer of Parliamentary corruption; R. Carlile, the publisher of Tom Paine’s, and other advanced Radical works; Leigh Hunt, part proprietor of the Examiner, who had been imprisoned for calling the Prince Regent a “Fat Adonis of Fifty”; Henry Hunt, who had suffered a long imprisonment for attending a meeting at Manchester to agitate for the Reform of the House of Commons, in 1819; and Henry Brougham, afterwards Lord Chancellor, who was instrumental in eventually passing that measure.