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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=395849" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Blue and Buff</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Come, sportive Muse, with plume satiric,<br>Describe each lawless, bold empiric,<br>Who, with the Blue and Buffs' sad crew,<br>Now stripp'd in buff, shall look so blue.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>First paint L---d H---w---k, boisterous, rough,<br>Dealer in wholesale quack'ry stuff,<br>Who, far beyond famed Katterfelt,<br>Prescribed what ne'er was seen or felt;<br>Left Law and Reason in the lurch,<br>To mould the Senate, twist the Church:<br>But wand'ring once from Downing street,<br>Great Buckingham's old dome to greet,<br>With grand Catholiconian pill,<br>Was lost--on Constitution-hill.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Next W---dh---m, metaphysic elf,<br>Who all things knows--except himself;<br>Three tedious hours who raves and talks<br>Of all that in his cranium stalks;<br>Whose regular ideas fear<br>Militia much, more Volunteer,<br>A wild inapplicable genius,<br>Scarce versed in policy's quæ genus;<br>In syntax yet more scantly read,<br>Without one concord in his head.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Now, Muse, direct the shaft of wit,<br>Where little P---tty apes great Pitt;<br>This year in woe-begone oration,<br>To Britons paints a bankrupt nation:<br>Resources all dilapidate,<br>Taxation at extremest fate;<br>Whilst next this little, great, small man,<br>Heigh! presto! pass! by one bold plan,<br>Restores you all to peace and plenty;<br>The deuce is in't! won't this content ye?<br>With necromantic rod of Moses<br>(A twig cut from a bush of roses),<br>To ease at once your ev'ry fear,<br>Turns bear to bull, and bull to bear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Nor miss, dear Muse, to gild my tale,<br>The gallant E---rl of L---d---e,<br>Who late to Paris post was sent, to<br>Become the dupe of Benevento;<br>Hush'd to soft sleep like &quot;Baby Bunting,&quot;<br>Whilst Fap the Great went out &quot;a-hunting.&quot;<br>Or was it, say, thou bonny chiel,<br>Thy ardent love for Britain's weal,<br>That led thy steps, a peep to take<br>At thy great territorial[1] stake;<br>The purchase of thine assignats,<br>Thy Corso-Gallican contrats:<br>At once th' opprobrium and solution,<br>Of all thy love for revolution.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>The Muse recoils, as something shock'd her,<br>To charge with harm the harmless D---ct---r;<br>When, una voce, all allow,<br>He would do right--if he knew how.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>But if, amongst this motely crew<br>One man of real parts we view:<br>With mind for highest station fit;<br>The colleague, friend, yet foe of Pitt;<br>He, to whose merits all men granted,<br>That Pitt's last list, one great name wanted;<br>He, who with every talent shone,<br>Except consistency alone;<br>&quot;We smile, if such a man there be,<br>&quot;But weep, if Grenville should be he.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=George+Canning">George Canning</a><div class=q>
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Describe each lawless, bold empiric,
Who, with the Blue and Buffs' sad crew,
Now stripp'd in buff, shall look so blue.


First paint L---d H---w---k, boisterous, rough,
Dealer in wholesale quack'ry stuff,
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