The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle

Ode to the Right Hon. the Lord North on his being appointed C--r in G--f of the H--e of C--s

Thou, whom Placemen all adore,
Of the Exchequer Chancellor;
And first Lord of the Treasury.
How can a Muse in humble Strain,
Pretend thy Merits to explain.
Or how in Numbers measure you!
Let G--ft--n, shunning public Strife,
Shrink in the Bosom of his Wife,
Scar'd at the York Petition;
But Thou shalt still maintain the Field,
With Heart in two-fold Conscience steel'd,
And combat Opposition.
Bold in their Front tho' Dowdeswell stand,
With String of Motions in his Hand,
Maxims of hard Digestion!
Unanswer'd, they shall perish all,
Clogg'd with Amendments in their Fall,
Or choak by previous Question.
Whilst thou, like Falstaff, tak'st the Floor,
With Men in Buckram thirteen Score,
No Cause you have to fear him:
The Sp--k--r too, with Looks so big,
Waits but the Motion of thy Leg
To point, and call out Hear him!
On either Hand, from Left to Right,
The Chiefs all marshall'd for the Fight,
Press to partake thy Glory:
There B--l--g--t--n, with sugar'd Tongue,
De G--y the old, and Fox the young,
The Flower of Oratory;
Here P--l--m--r--h and blundering Cl--y
And patient Mungo every where,
And Th-r--w puts his Oar in:
While all amid th' oppoing Rout
The dauntless R-g--y, tall and stout,
Pushes a modest Face in.
E-l--t, with Accents broad and strong,
And J--k-s--n, with Arms so long,
Still join to help the Farce on;
Ellis and St--r--g--e their Voices lend.
With O--l--w, Wilkes's only Friend
That since has us'd the Pardon.
With Crest erect, like Priam's Son,
Lead but your trusty Trojans on,
Regardless of Desertion,
Like Swiss they faithfully obey,
---Like Swiss too they must have their Pay,
Post, Pension, and Reversion.
In other Fields let G---ft---n reap
A Victory more safe and cheap,
With Stars and Garters hem'd in:
W--m---th to Answer Richmond's Duke,
And sober S--dw--ch to rebuke,
Both Rockingham and Camden.
With Scottish P---s complete Sixteen,
B--ps in meet Array are seen,
Content---to earn Promotion;
And M---sf--i--d. ever constant found.
And M---hm--t ready to propound
In Ere a Midnight Motion.
Great polar Star, who now secure
Beams in the Sky the Cynosure
Of courtly Navigation,
Oh deign to shed thy Influence forth
On him whose Needle points at North
Without a Variation:
Illi robur & as duplex.
HOR.