Читать книгу A History of Parliamentary Elections and Electioneering in the Old Days - Joseph Grego - Страница 17

“By wise Volk, I have oft been told,

Parliaments grow nought as they grow old,

We groan’d under the Rump,

But sure this is a heavier curse,

That sucks and drains thus ev’ry purse,

By this old Whitehall pump.”

Another warning note is struck in the following ballad, aimed at the reprobated Pensionary Parliament:—