XVII

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XVII

“I’ll trounce ’em!⁠—there’s the square-cut chancellor,

His son shall never touch that bishopric;

And for the nephew of old Palfior,

I’ll show him that his speeches made me sick,

And give the colonelcy to Phalaric;

The tiptoe marquis, moral and gallant,

Shall lodge in shabby taverns upon tick;

And for the Speaker’s second cousin’s aunt,

She sha’n’t be maid of honour,⁠—by heaven that she sha’n’t!