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Oh, / Castlereagh! thou art a patriot now; / Cato died for his country, so didst thou: / He perish'd rather than see Rome enslaved, / Thou cutt'st thy throat that Britain may be saved! / So Castlereagh has cut his throat! - the worst / Of this is - that his own was not the first.
So he has cut his throat at last! - / He! Who? The man who cut his country long ago.