Note 414 — NOTES ON ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL. PART II.
Reading edition
Witness an excellent ballad, which calls itself, "The Suburbs' Thanks for the City's Election:"
We gave commission, that our thanks should wait on The kind electors of Sir Robert Clayton, Sir Thomas Player, Pilkington, and Love; Thus we our joy by this return do prove. — — — — — — — Meekly and modestly they played their parts; I do not wonder that they won your hearts: Had you elected others in their stead, Sure you had done a very evil deed; For who could equalize the love and care Of Clayton, Pilkington, of Love, and Player?