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AN EPIGRAM,
Written on the 5th of November, 1788; when the Whig Club resolved to erect a pillar at Runnymede, in commemoration of that illustrious epoch.
The sinister Whigs, in the third George's reign,
Have in general congress agreed,
To erect a huge column to shade the green plain,
In the hamlet of fam'd Runnymede.
Have in general congress agreed,
To erect a huge column to shade the green plain,
In the hamlet of fam'd Runnymede.
What the deuce can they mean by this popular cant?
What end have the caitiffs in sight?
'Tis an emblem of beauty, quoth Truth, they call want,
To make the base varlets upright.
What end have the caitiffs in sight?
'Tis an emblem of beauty, quoth Truth, they call want,
To make the base varlets upright.
It's rather, said Wit, if we think ere we search,
A symbolical offering to Fate;
That one half may be pillars of Albion's church,
And the rest become pillars of State.
A symbolical offering to Fate;
That one half may be pillars of Albion's church,
And the rest become pillars of State.
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