To purge and let thee blood with fire and sword, Is all the help stern S----[94] would afford. That those who bind and rob thee would not kill, Good C----[95] hopes, and candidly sits still. Of Ch---s W----[96] who speaks at all, No more than of Sir Har--y or Sir P----.[97] 20 Whose names once up, they thought it was not wrong To lie in bed, but sure they lay too long. G---r, C---m, B---t,[98] pay thee due regards, Unless the ladies bid them mind their cards. with wit that must And C---d[99] who speaks so well and writes, Whom (saving W.) every S. _harper bites_, must needs, Whose wit and ... equally provoke one, Finds thee, at best, the butt to crack his joke on. As for the rest, each winter up they run, And all are clear, and something must be done. 30 Then urged by C---t,[100] or by C---t stopp'd, Inflamed by P----,[101] and by P---- dropp'd; They follow reverently each wondrous wight, Amazed that one can read, that one can write: So geese to gander prone obedience keep, Hiss, if he hiss, and if he slumber, sleep. Till having done whate'er was fit or fine, Utter'd a speech, and ask'd their friends to dine; Each hurries back to his paternal ground, Content but for five shillings in the pound, 40 Yearly defeated, yearly hopes they give, And all agree Sir Robert cannot live. 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.