Note 411 — NOTES ON ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL. PART II.
Reading edition
"An excellent new Ballad between Tom the Tory, and Toney the Whig. (Danby and Shaftesbury.) Scene, the Tower."
Toney. Thou wants not wickedness, but wit, To turn it to thy profit; Who but a sot would hatch a plot, And then make nothing of it? 'Twas I was fain to rear thy barn, And bring it to perfection; I made the frighted nation sue To me for my protection.