XVIII

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XVIII

“I’ll shirk the Duke of A.; I’ll cut his brother;

I’ll give no garter to his eldest son;

I won’t speak to his sister or his mother!

The Viscount B. shall live at cut-and-run;

But how in the world can I contrive to stun

That fellow’s voice, which plagues me worse than any,

That stubborn fool, that impudent state-dun,

Who sets down ev’ry sovereign as a zany,⁠—

That vulgar commoner, Esquire Biancopany?