Note 485 — EPISTLE TO THE WHIGS.
Reading edition
Alluding to the Irish witnesses brought against Shaftesbury, to whom the Whigs refused credit as soon as they ceased to swear on their side; a great subject of complaint to the Tories.
Poor Teague and Rory, who renewed the story, Were babes of grace while swearing was in fashion; But when the Whig was charged by the true Tory, The joyner's flail did thresh them out of the nation; Then all was gospel-proof, and now all subornation; Against old Tony, perjured every mother's son, And now poor Teague and Rory, To his nation's glory, May plot at home, and sing, O hone! O hone!