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Rh I had my advantage and stood at defiance, For Daniel was got from the den of the lions: I came in without danger, and was I to blame? For, rather than hang, I would be Not-in-game. I swore to the queen, that the prince of Hanover During her sacred life would never come over: I made use of a trope; that "an heir to invite, Was like keeping her monument always in sight." But, when I thought proper, I alter'd my note; And in her own hearing I boldly did vote, That her majesty stood in great need of a tutor, And must have an old or a young coadjutor: For why; I would fain have put all in a flame, Because, for some reasons, I was Not-in-game. Now my new benefactors have brought me about, And I'll vote against peace, with Spain or without: Though the court gives my nephews, and brothers, and cousins, And all my whole family places by dozens; Yet, since I know where a full purse may be found, And hardly pay eighteen pence tax in the pound: Since the tories have thus disappointed my hopes, And will neither regard my figures nor tropes; I'll speech against peace while Dismal's my name, And be a true whig, while I'm Not-in-game.