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That all men would be cowards if they dare	A
Some men we know have courage to declare	A
And this the life of many a hero shows	B
That like the tide man's courage ebbs and flows	B
With friends and gay companions round them then	C
Men boldly speak and have the hearts of men	C
Who with opponents seated miss the aid	D
Of kind applauding looks and grow afraid	D
Like timid travelers in the night they fear	E
Th' assault of foes when not a friend is near	E
In contest mighty and of conquest proud	F
Was Justice Bolt impetuous warm and loud	F
His fame his prowess all the country knew	G
And disputants with one so fierce were few	G
He was a younger son for law design'd	H
With dauntless look and persevering mind	H
While yet a clerk for disputation famed	I
No efforts tired him and no conflicts tamed	I
Scarcely he bade his master's desk adieu	G
When both his brothers from the world withdrew	G
An ample fortune he from them possessed	J
And was with saving care and prudence bless'd	J
Now would he go and to the country give	K
Example how an English 'squire should live	L
How bounteous yet how frugal man may be	M
By well order'd hospitality	M
He would the rights of all so well maintain	N
That none should idle be and none complain	N
All this and more he purposed and what man	O
Could do he did to realise his plan	O
But time convinced him that we cannot keep	P
A breed of reasoners like a flock of sheep	P
For they so far from following as we lead	Q
Make that a cause why they will not proceed	R
Man will not follow where a rule is shown	S
But loves to take a method of his own	S
Explain the way with all your care and skill	T
This will he quit if but to prove he will	T
Yet had our Justice honour and the crowd	F
Awed by his presence their respect avow'd	F
In later years he found his heart incline	U
More than in youth to gen'rous food and wine	U
But no indulgence check'd the powerful love	V
He felt to teach to argue and reprove	V
Meetings or public calls he never miss'd	W
To dictate often always to assist	W
Oft he the clergy join'd and not a cause	X
Pertain'd to them but he could quote the laws	Y
He upon tithes and residence display'd	D
A fund of knowledge for the hearer's aid	D
And could on glebe and farming wool and grains	Z
A long discourse without a pause maintain	N
To his experience and his native sense	A2
He join'd a bold imperious eloquence	B2
The grave stern look of men inform'd and wise	C2
A full command of feature heart and eyes	C2
An awe compelling frown and fear inspiring size	C2
When at the table not a guest was seen	D2
With appetite so lingering or so keen	D2
But when the outer man no more required	E2
The inner waked and he was man inspired	E2
His subjects then were those a subject true	G
Presents in fairest form to public view	G
Of church and state of law with mighty strength	F2
Of words he spoke in speech of mighty length	F2
And now into the vale of years declined	H
He hides too little of the monarch mind	H
He kindles anger by untimely jokes	G2
And opposition by contempt provokes	G2
Mirth he suppresses by his awful frown	H2
And humble spirits by disdain keeps down	H2
Blamed by the mild approved by the severe	E
The prudent fly him and the valiant fear	E
For overbearing is his proud discourse	I2
And overwhelming of his voice the force	I2
And overpowering is he when he shows	B
What floats upon a mind that always overflows	B
This ready man at every meeting rose	B
Something to hint determine or propose	B
And grew so fond of teaching that he taught	J2
Those who instruction needed not or sought	J2
Happy our hero when he could excite	K2
Some thoughtless talker to the wordy fight	K2
Let him a subject at his pleasure choose	L2
Physic or law religion or the muse	L2
On all such themes he was prepared to shine	U
Physician poet lawyer and divine	U
Hemm'd in by some tough argument borne down	H2
By press of language and the awful frown	H2
In vain for mercy shall the culprit plead	R
His crime is past and sentence must proceed	R
Ah suffering man have patience bear thy woes	B
For lo the clock at ten the Justice goes	B
This powerful man on business or to please	M2
A curious taste or weary grown of ease	M2
On a long journey travelled many a mile	N2
Westward and halted midway in our isle	N2
Content to view a city large and fair	A
Though none had notice what a man was there	A
Silent two days he then began to long	O2
Again to try a voice so loud and strong	O2
To give his favourite topics some new grace	P2
And gain some glory in such distant place	P2
To reap some present pleasure and to sow	Q2
Seeds of fair fame in after time to grow	R2
Here will men say 'We heard at such an hour	S2
The best of speakers wonderful his power '	T2
Inquiry made he found that day would meet	U2
A learned club and in the very street	U2
Knowledge to gain and give was the design	U
To speak to hearken to debate and dine	U
This pleased our traveller for he felt his force	I2
In either way to eat or to discourse	I2
Nothing more easy than to gain access	V2
To men like these with his polite address	V2
So he succeeded and first look'd around	W2
To view his objects and to take his ground	W2
And therefore silent chose awhile to sit	X2
Then enter boldly by some lucky hit	X2
Some observation keen or stroke severe	E
To cause some wonder or excite some fear	E
Now dinner past no longer he supprest	X2
His strong dislike to be a silent guest	X2
Subjects and words were now at his command	X2
When disappointment frown'd on all he plann'd	X2
For hark he heard amazed on every side	X2
His church insulted and her priests belied	X2
The laws reviled the ruling power abused	X2
The land derided and its foes excused	X2
He heard and ponder'd What to men so vile	N2
Should be his language For his threat'ning style	N2
They were too many if his speech were meek	Y2
They would despise such poor attempts to speak	Y2
At other times with every word at will	T
He now sat lost perplex'd astonish'd still	T
Here were Socinians Deists and indeed	X2
All who as foes to England's Church agreed	X2
But still with creeds unlike and some without a	Z2
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creed	X2
Here too fierce friends of liberty he saw	A3
Who own'd no prince and who obey no law	A3
There were reformers of each different sort	X2
Foes to the laws the priesthood and the court	X2
Some on their favourite plans alone intent	X2
Some purely angry and malevolent	X2
The rash were proud to blame their country's laws	Y
The vain to seem supporters of a cause	X
One call'd for change that he would dread to see	M
Another sigh'd for Gallic liberty	M
And numbers joining with the forward crew	G
For no one reason but that numbers do	G
'How ' said the Justice 'can this trouble rise	C2
This shame and pain from creatures I despise '	-
And Conscience answer'd 'The prevailing cause	X
Is thy delight in listening to applause	Y
Here thou art seated with a tribe who spurn	B3
Thy favourite themes and into laughter turn	B3
Thy fears and wishes silent and obscure	C3
Thyself shalt thou the long harangue endure	C3
And learn by feeling what it is to force	I2
On thy unwilling friends the long discourse	I2
What though thy thoughts be just and these it	X2
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seems	D3
Are traitors' projects idiots' empty schemes	D3
Yet minds like bodies cramm'd reject their food	X2
Nor will be forced and tortured for their good '	-
At length a sharp shrewd sallow man arose	B
And begg'd he briefly might his mind disclose	B
'It was his duty in these worst of times	E3
T'inform the govern'd of their rulers' crimes '	-
This pleasant subject to attend they each	F3
Prepare to listen and forbore to teach	F3
Then voluble and fierce the wordy man	O
Through a long chain of favourite horrors ran	O
First of the Church from whose enslaving power	S2
He was deliver'd and he bless'd the hour	S2
'Bishops and deans and prebendaries all '	-
He said 'were cattle fatt'ning in the stall	G3
Slothful and pursy insolent and mean	D2
Were every bishop prebendary dean	D2
And wealthy rector curates poorly paid	X2
Were only dull he would not them upbraid '	-
From priests he turn'd to canons creeds and	X2
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prayers	H3
Rubrics and rules and all our Church affairs	H3
Churches themselves desk pulpit altar all	G3
The Justice reverenced and pr	S2

George Crabbe

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