Have they no higher game in view, My boy, HOBBY O? (_bis_) Oh yes; to stir the people up, And then to head the mob-by O. 7. But sure they'll at their ruin pause, My boy, HOBBY O? (_bis_) No! they'd see King and Parliament Both d--d without a sob-by O! 8. But, if they fail, they'll be hanged up, My boy, HOBBY O? (_bis_) Why, then, they'll swing, like better men, And that will end the job-by O! PHILO-RADICLE. April 15, 1820." LINES ADDRESSED BY LORD BYRON TO MR. HOBHOUSE ON HIS ELECTION FOR WESTMINSTER.[114] WOULD you go to the house by the true gate, Much faster than ever Whig Charley went; Let Parliament send you to Newgate, And Newgate will send you to Parliament. _April 9, 1820_. [First published, _Miscellaneous Poems_, printed for J. Bumpus, 1824.] FOOTNOTES: [114] ["I send you 'a Song of Triumph,' by W. Botherby, Esq^re^ price sixpence, on the election of J.C.H., Esqre., for Westminster (_not_ for publication)."--Letter to Murray, April 9, 1820, _Letters_, 1901, v. 6.] A VOLUME OF NONSENSE. DEAR MURRAY,-- You ask for a "_Volume of Nonsense_," Have all of your authors exhausted their store? I thought you had published a good deal not long since. And doubtless the Squadron are ready with more. But on looking again, I perceive that the Species Of "Nonsense" you want must be purely "_facetious_;" And, as that is the case, you had best put to press Mr. Sotheby's tragedies now in M.S., Some Syrian Sally From common-place Gally, Or, if you prefer the bookmaking of women, Take a spick and span "Sketch" of your feminine _He-Man_.[115] _Sept. 28, 1820._ [First published, _Letters_, 1900, v. 83.] FOOTNOTES: [115] [For Felicia Dorothea Browne (1793-1835), married in 1812 to Captain Hemans, see _Letters_, iii. 368, _note_ 2. In the letter which contains these verses he writes, "I do not despise Mrs. Heman; but if she knit blue stockings instead of wearing them it would be better." Elsewhere he does despise her: "No more _modern_ poesy, I pray, neither Mrs. Hewoman's nor any female or male Tadpole of poet Wordsworth's."--_Ibid._, v. 64.] STANZAS.[116] WHEN a man hath no freedom to fight for at home, Let him combat for that of his neighbours; Let him think of the glories of Greece and of Rome, And get knocked on the head for his labours.