12.

"So he sat him on his box again,
And bade him have no fear,
But be true to his club, and stanch to his rein,
His brothel, and his beer;
'Next to seeing a lord at the council board.
I would rather see him here.'

17.

"The Devil gat next to Westminster,
And he turn'd to 'the room' of the Commons;
But he heard, as he purposed to enter in there,
That 'the Lords' had received a summons;
And he thought, as a '_quondam_ aristocrat,'
He might peep at the peers, though to _hear_ them were flat:
And he walk'd up the house, so like one of our own,
That they say that he stood pretty near the throne.

18.

"He saw the Lord L----l seemingly wise,
The Lord W----d certainly silly,
And Johnny of Norfolk--a man of some size--
And Chatham, so like his friend Billy;
And he saw the tears in Lord E----n's eyes,
Because the Catholics would _not_ rise,
In spite of his prayers and his prophecies;