And introduced the deputation.

But no--the clown my prospects blights--
(The worth of birth it surely teaches!)
"Why should I want to spend my nights
In Parliament, a-making speeches?

"I haven't never been to school--
I ain't had not no eddication--
And I should surely be a fool
To publish that to all the nation!"

I offered him a trotting horse--
No hack had ever trotted faster--
I also offered him, of course,
A rare and curious "old Master."

I offered to procure him weeds--
Wines fit for one in his position--
But, though an ass in all his deeds,
He'd learnt the meaning of "commission."

He called me "thief" the other day,
And daily from his door he thrusts me;
Much more of this, and soon I may
Begin to think that Brown mistrusts me.

So deaf to all sound Reason's rule
This poor uneducated clown is,
You cannot fancy what a fool