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But still, howe’er you draw your bow,[64] Your charms improve, your triumphs grow, New grace adorns your figure; More stiff your boots, more black your stock, 10 Your hat assumes a prouder cock, Like Pistol’s (if ’twere bigger).
Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin: Comprising the Celebrated Political and Satirical Poems, of the Rt. Hons. G. Canning, John Hookham Frere, W. Pitt, the Marquis Wellesley, G. Ellis, W. Gifford, the Earl of Carlisle, and Others.
But still, howe’er you draw your bow,[64] Your charms improve, your triumphs grow, New grace adorns your figure; More stiff your boots, more black your stock, 10 Your hat assumes a prouder cock, Like Pistol’s (if ’twere bigger).