The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott, with memoir of the author.

CANTO II.] THE BRIDAL OF TRIERMAIN.

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Whose ethics Chesterfield can teach,
Whose logic is from Single-speech; '
Who scorns the meanest thought to vent,
Save in the phrase of Parliament;
Who, in a tale of cat and mouse,
Calls " order," and " divides the house,"
Who "craves permission to reply,"
Whose " noble friend is in his eye;"
Whose loving tender some have reckon'd
A motion, you should gladly second?
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What, neither? Can there be a third,
To such resistless swains preferr'd?0 why, my Lucy, turn aside,
With that quick glance of injured pride?
Forgive me, love, I cannot bear
That alter'd and resentful air.
Were all the wealth of Russel mine,
And all the rank of Howard's line,
All would I give for leave to dry
That dewdrop trembling in thine eye.
Think not I fear such fops can wile
From Lucy more than careless smile;
But yet if wealth and high degree
Give gilded counters currency,
1 [See " Parliamentary Logic, &c., by the Right Honourable William Gerard Hamilton," (1808,) commonly called
"Single-Speech Hamilton."]