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I / Oh, Wellington! (or "Villainton" -- for Fame / Sounds the heroic syllables both ways; / France could not even conquer your great name, / But punn'd it down to this facetious phrase -- / Beating or beaten she will laugh the same), / You have obtain'd great pensions and much praise: / Glory like yours should any dare gainsay, / Humanity would rise, and thunder "Nay!"
II / I don't think that you used Kinnaird quite well / In Marinet's affair -- in fact, 't was shabby, / And like some other things won't do to tell / Upon your tomb in Westminster's old abbey. / Upon the rest 't is not worth while to dwell, / Such tales being for the tea-hours of some tabby; / But though your years as man tend fast to zero, / In fact your grace is still but a young hero.