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And so my Muse perforce drew bit;

And in he rush'd and panted—
"Well, have you heard?" No, not a whit.
"What, ha'nt you heard?" Come, out with it!—
"That Tierney votes for Mister Pitt,
"And Sheridan's recanted!"