V.

I am no flatterer—you've supped full of flattery: They say you like it too—'t is no great wonder.

He whose whole life has been assault and battery,

At last may get a little tired of thunder;

And swallowing eulogy much more than satire, he

May like being praised for every lucky blunder,

Called "Saviour of the Nations"—not yet saved,—

And "Europe's Liberator"—still enslaved. 

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