6.  Quoth the King, “My good Lord, perhaps you’ve been told, That I used to abuse you a little of old; ’But now bring whom you will, and eke turn away, But let me and my money, and Walmoden(724) stay.”

7.”  For you and Walmoden, I freely consent, But as for your money, I must have it spent; I have promised your son (nay, no frowns,) shall have some, Nor think ’tis for nothing we patriots are come.

8.  “But, however, little King, since I find you so good, Thus stooping below your high courage and blood, Put yourself in my hands, and I’ll do what I can, To make you look yet like a King and a man.

9.  “At your Admiralty and your Treasury-board, To save one single man y; u shan’t say a word, For, by God! all your rubbish front both you shall shoot, Walpole’s ciphers and Gasherry’S(725) vassals to boot.

10.  “And to guard Prince’s ears, as all Statesmen take care, So, long as yours are-not one man shall come near; For of all your Court-crew we’ll leave only those Who we know never dare to say boh! to a goose.

11.  “So your friend booby Grafton I’ll e’en let you keep, Awake he can’t hurt, and is still half asleep; Nor ever was dangerous, but to womankind, And his body’s as impotent now as his mind.

12.  “There’s another Court-booby, at once hot and dull, Your pious pimp, Schutz, a mean, Hanover tool; For your card-play at night he too shall remain, With virtuous and sober, and wise Deloraine.(726)

13.  “And for all your Court-nobles who can’t write or read, As of such titled ciphers all courts stand in need, Who, like parliament-Swiss, vote and fight for their pay, They’re as good as a new set to cry yea and nay.

14.  “Though Newcastle’s as false, as he’s silly, I know, By betraying old Robin to me long ago, As well as all those who employed him before, Yet I leave him in place, but I leave him no power.

15.  “For granting his heart is as black as his hat, With no more truth in this, than there’s sense beneath that; Yet as he’s a coward, he’ll shake when I frown; You call’d him a rascal, I’ll use him like one,

16.  “And since his estate at elections he’ll spend, And beggar himself, without making a friend; So whilst the extravagant fool has a sous, As his brains I can’t fear, so his fortune I’ll use,

17.  “And as miser Hardwicke, with all courts will draw, He too may remain, but shall stick to his law; For of foreign affairs, when he talks like a fool, I’ll laugh in his face,, and will cry ‘Go to school!’

18.  “The Countess of Wilmington, excellent nurse, I’ll trust with the Treasury, not with its purse, For nothing by her I’ve resolved shall be done, She shall sit at that board, as you sit on the throne.

19.  “Perhaps now, you expect that I should begin To tell you the men I design to bring in; But we’re not yet determined on all their demands -And you’ll know soon enough, when they come to kiss hands.