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[Lord Lincolnshire pointed out that Britain's glory has always / depended very largely upon men whose names suggest no historical / associations; upon the Browns and the McGhees, as well as upon / the Willoughbys, the Talbots, and the Cecils.]
In praise of many a noble name, / Let lesser poets chaunt a paean; / The deathless fame will I proclaim / Of others, more plebeian. / Let minstrels sing of Montagues, / Of Scots and Brabazons and Percys, / While lovers of the Muse (or Meux) / On Lambtons base their verses. / My lyre, which neither mocks nor mimics, / Shall laud the humbler patronymics.