My Boy, Hobby O!

By Lord Byron

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How came you in Hob's pound to cool,
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    My boy Hobbie, O?
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Because I bade the people pull
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    The House into the Lobby, O.
 
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What did the House upon this call,
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    My boy Hobbie, O?
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They voted me to Newgate all;
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    Which is an awkward Jobby, O.
 
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Who are now the people's men,
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    My boy Hobby, O?
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There's I and Burdett—Gentlemen,
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    And blackguard Hunt and Cobby, O.
 
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You hate the House—why canvass, then?
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    My boy Hobbie, O?
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Because I would reform the den
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    As member for the Mobby, O.
 
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Wherefore do you hate the Whigs,
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    My boy Hobbie, O?
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Because they want to run their rigs
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    As under Walpole Bobby, O.
 
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But when we at Cambridge were,
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    My boy Hobbie, O,
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If my memory don't err,
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    You founded a Whig Clubbie, O.
 
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When to the mob you make a speech,
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    My boy Hobbie, O,
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How do you keep without their reach
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    The watch within your fobby, O?
 
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But never mind such petty things,
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    My boy Hobbie, O—
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God save the people—damn all Kings—
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    So let us crown the Mobby, O!

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