Illegitimate ambitions,
Democratic rhetoricians,
Persons prone to base submissions,
Men of warlike dispositions,
Wild and wicked statisticians,
Metaphysical magicians,
Men inclined to make conditions,
⁠And a host of wary foes
Compassed round the ruling faction:
But a certain line of action
⁠They incontinently chose:
And with great determination,
And extreme discrimination,
Wrought it out with acclamation,
And each other's approbation,
Till the national taxation
⁠Not unnaturally rose.

To the nation soon occurred an
⁠Opportunity of saying
What they thought about the burden
⁠Which the government was laying
On their shoulders; and they said it
⁠In uncompromising terms:—
"Your behaviour would discredit
⁠Tigers, crocodiles, or worms: