Good people all, of every degree,

Ye gentle readers and ungentle writers,

In this twelfth Canto 't is my wish to be

As serious as if I had for inditers

Malthus and Wilberforce:—the last set free

The Negroes, and is worth a million fighters;

While Wellington has but enslaved the Whites,

And Malthus ⁷⁴ does the thing 'gainst which he writes.