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Enter the real representatives of the people , led on by Daniel O ' Toole , William Flail , Editors of the * True Luminary , ' * Weekly Ninetails , ' ' Poor Mail's Goliath' ' Trade ' s Uiiion Gazette , ' 8 fc > with two or three Members of Parliament . They range themselves on the side opposite the peers .
POPULAR CHORUS . Here stand we—living men , Who claim a right to live ! A beast is fed within his pen ; Our fellow-creatures nought will give ! We gave you all that you possess , And gain your scorn by our distress !
se- r . Fire , earthquake , deluge , pestilence , and slaughter , Are better than starvation ; they are shorter !
SEMI-CHORUS II . But ye , inflated , self-idolatrous peers , Less mercy have than war , plague , deluge , fire ; And ye , the evil fates , with clerical shears , Would leave us bare , while ye with unctuous fat perspire ! Enter Poet Clinker , with Junius Redivivus , Publicola ^ William Broadbrim , Will Samson , Tete-d-Tele , the Editor of the * Black Book , ' Sfc . They are followed by men bearing poles and placards , on tvhich the word ' million ' is inscribed . They place themselves among the foremost of the Representatives .
FULL POPULAR CHORUS . We are worn out with long delay , Exasperated with the mock ; How are we humbugged day by day , By shuffling- Wig and barefac'd Block . But still you'd have us pay ! pay ! pay ! You can't have blood out of a rock ;
But fire , from many blows , you may ; Oh cormorant Wig ! oh tyrant Block !
SEMI-CHORUS I . Led by Poet Clinker , whirling his bat . Off with the poor man ' s tax ; Descending multiplied by ' s poverty ! Are we like nacker ' s liacks , Working for hounds of aristocracy ? Shame , with a tongue of flame , Blister the noble ' s name Who advocates this game , Cura'd by the past and present times—and to postei ily !
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A Political Oratorio . 39
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1835, page 39, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2641/page/39/
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