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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=426344" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>An Excellent New Song Being The Intended Speech Of A Famous Orator Against Peace</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">An orator dismal of Nottinghamshire,<br>Who has forty years let out his conscience to hire,<br>Out of zeal for his country, and want of a place,<br>Is come up, vi et armis, to break the queen's peace.<br>He has vamp'd an old speech, and the court, to their sorrow,<br>Shall hear him harangue against Prior to-morrow.<br>When once he begins, he never will flinch,<br>But repeats the same note a whole day like a Finch.<br>I have heard all the speech repeated by Hoppy,'<br>And, 'mistakes to prevent, I've obtained a copy.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>THE SPEECH</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Whereas, notwithstanding I am in great pain,<br>To hear we are making a peace without Spain;<br>But, most noble senators, 'tis a great shame,<br>There should be a peace, while I'm Not-in-game.<br>The duke show'd me all his fine house; and the duchess<br>From her closet brought out a full purse in her clutches:<br>I talk'd of a peace, and they both gave a start,<br>His grace swore by G—d, and her grace let a f—t:<br>My long old-fashion'd pocket was presently cramm'd;<br>And sooner than vote for a peace I'll be damn'd.<br>But some will cry turn-coat, and rip up old stories,<br>How I always pretended to be for the Tories:<br>I answer; the Tories were in my good graces,<br>Till all my relations were put into places.<br>But still I'm in principle ever the same,<br>And will quit my best friends, while I'm Not-in-game.<br>When I and some others subscribed our names<br>To a plot for expelling my master King James,<br>I withdrew my subscription by help of a blot,<br>And so might discover or gain by the plot:<br>I had my advantage, and stood at defiance,<br>For Daniel was got from the den of the lions:<br>I came in without danger, and was I to blame?<br>For, rather than hang, I would be Not-in-game.<br>I swore to the queen, that the Prince of Hanover<br>During her sacred life would never come over:<br>I made use of a trope; that 'an heir to invite,<br>Was like keeping her monument always in sight.'<br>But, when I thought proper, I alter'd my note;<br>And in her own hearing I boldly did vote,<br>That her Majesty stood in great need of a tutor,<br>And must have an old or a young coadjutor:<br>For why; I would fain have put all in a flame,<br>Because, for some reasons, I was Not-in-game.<br>Now my new benefactors have brought me about,<br>And I'll vote against peace, with Spain or without:<br>Though the court gives my nephews, and brothers, and cousins,<br>And all my whole family, places by dozens;<br>Yet, since I know where a full purse may be found,<br>And hardly pay eighteen-pence tax in the pound:<br>Since the Tories have thus disappointed my hopes,<br>And will neither regard my figures nor tropes,<br>I'll speech against peace while Dismal's my name,<br>And be a true Whig, while I'm Not-in-game.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Jonathan+Swift">Jonathan Swift</a><div class=q>
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Who has forty years let out his conscience to hire,
Out of zeal for his country, and want of a place,
Is come up, vi et armis, to break the queen's peace.
He has vamp'd an old speech, and the court, to their so..."></div>
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