Note 56 — THE LIFE OF COWPER. PART THE FIRST. (continued 3)
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Cowper alludes to this afflicting page in our domestic history, in his Table Talk:—
When tumult lately burst his prison door, And set plebeian thousands in a roar; When he usurp'd authority's just place, And dared to look his master in the face. When the rude rabble's watch-word was—Destroy, And blazing London seem'd a second Troy.