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BOOK THE FIRST.

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BOOK THE FIRST.

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Entroductory Lines to Book the First.

TO CAPTAIN B- H—, R.N.

&c. &c.

WHILE Sovereigns-save our royal Sire,
Who justly has become the rage-
Are goods that have begun to tire
The humours of the ripening Age;

While thanks to whiskered peers*—the clown

In print, at least, can play the rover-
Cross seas whose depth can never drown,

And shores untrod-in Truth discover;
While ermined "INFLUENCE" half forsakes
Her flock to no contemn'd attacks;
While Pelham for his boroughs quakes,
And Jersey trembles for 'Almacks';
While thus the old world;-Captain H-
Writes foolish books about the new-
Weeps tears of ink when despots fall,

And damns poor Murray's lost Review.

* See a certain speech of Lord Wilton, in which the people are said to owe their knowledge to the Aristocracy. It is very true!—their knowledge of taxes!

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