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Rh 7.

When to the mob you make a speech,

My boy Hobbie O,

How do you keep without their reach

The watch within your fobby O?

8.

But never mind such petty things,

My boy Hobbie O;

God save the people—damn all Kings,

So let us Crown the Mobby O!

Yours truly,

(Signed).

March 23$rd$, 1820. [First published Murray's Magazine, March, 1887, vol. i. pp. 292, 293.]

LINES

ADDRESSED BY LORD BYRON TO MR. HOBHOUSE ON HIS ELECTION FOR WESTMINSTER.