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Rh Because I bade the people pull

The House into the Lobby O.

2.

My boy, Hobby O? (bis)

There's me and ,—gentlemen,

And Blackguards and  O!

3.

My boy, O? (bis)

Yes, Southwark's Knight, the County ,

And in the City, O!

4.

My boy, O? (bis)

We spout with tavern Radicals,

And drink with them hob-nobby O!

5.

My boy, O? (bis)

It gives our partisans a chance

Watches to twitch from fob-by O!

6.

My boy, O? (bis)

Oh yes; to stir the people up,

And then to head the mob-by O.

7.

My boy, O? (bis)

No! they'd see King and Parliament

Both d—d without a sob-by O!

8.

My boy, O? (bis)

Why, then, they'll swing, like better men,

And that will end the job-by O! ". "April 15, 1820."}}

* "Southwark's Knight" was General Sir Robert Thomas Wilson (1777-1849), who was returned for Southwark in 1818, and again in 1820; "County Byng" was George Byng, M.P. for Middlesex; and "Bobby" was Sir Robert Waithman (1764-1833), who represented the City of London in 1818, but lost his seat to Sir William Curtis in 1820. All these were advanced Liberals, and, as such, Parliamentary friends of Hobhouse.]