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In a panel discussion, Larry David's longtime collaborator says the Seinfeld creator 'is so goddamned rich he doesn't have to do anything unless it's good'
The Seinfeld actor, who for years acted out Larry David's baffled alter ego George Costanza, will take over the lead in the David-penned Fish in the Dark
With Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm still commanding an army of fans, it is no surprise that ticket sales for David's Broadway debut are breaking records
Cultural icons realised through the medium of emojis? It's something, deep down, you always hoped to see …
Larry David says that the chances of a further series are 'six to one against'. Should he return to the show, or leave it hanging?
Jerry Seinfeld's web series, in which he takes a famous friend for coffee, has been given four more seasons. Here are the very best episodes so far
Blending in is the new standing out – and Larry David is this year's unlikely style icon. Lauren Cochrane explains the rules of Normcore, where dressing like a tourist is the ultimate fashion statement
The comedian has said he is working on a 'secret project' that will reunite the Seinfeld cast, and it will appear 'very, very soon', reports Ben Beaumont-Thomas
The Curb Your Enthusiasm star admits to being the most foul-mouthed sitcom character in history
Curb Your Enthusiasm (episode by episode) Curb your Enthusiasm – season eight, episode 10 – season finale
Paul Owen: This final episode was as uneven as the series as a whole
Paul Owen: Larry's competing with a lesbian for a bisexual woman's affections – and struggling with Japanese etiquette
Joe Jackson: What happens when you visit places that feature in TV shows? Can the magic of telly replicate itself in real life?
Tim Lusher: Larry David is taking his neuroses from LA to New York. Will Curb survive intact? And how important is a TV show's location?
Bruce Dessau: The wicked comedy, the cameos, the shuffle, this man is a genius – and he's in the UK in April
Paul Owen: The reunion of the Seinfeld cast has seen Curb hit new heights. What will its star do after tonight's final episode?
Richard Vine: TV reunions are hard to get right but Larry David has pulled it off
Your next box set: Curb Your Enthusiasm is truly a view into Larry David's mind, with all its unexpected wisdom and unabashed idiocy
Ben Walters: Don't curb your enthusiasm for Woody Allen's homecoming film – Whatever Works is engaging and funny, and in Larry David, he's found a new kindred spirit to channel his sensibility
Oliver Burkeman's Campaign Diary: Larry David on waiting for November 4
Price cuts in summer sales fail to entice wary consumers into the shops, says CBI
Even a cringeworthy encounter with my hero Larry David can't curb my enthusiasm now that the Beached website is here ...
The British comic actor's guest spot changed the whole dynamic of Larry David's sublime sitcom - and not for the better
Barack's debt to Larry DavidVictoria CorenVictoria Coren: Americans are less cynical about their celebrities because they are less cynical about their entire system: still hopeful in 'the American dream', they believe that anybody who has prospered from it must in some way have deserved to
Larry Craig is fighting for his political life, while David Vitter gets slapped on the back. Conclusion: Republicans think that sleeping with prostitutes is OK.
'Finally, someone as shallow as me': so thought comedian Larry David when he first met his wife Laurie. So how did she reinvent herself as America's foremost ecological campaigner? Ed Pilkington finds out.
Curb Your Enthusiasm continues to delight in the foibles of its creator, Larry David. He's rude. He's insensitive. In fact, he may well be the last American hero, says Dan Davies.
Deep down, I'm really shallowMaxton Walker
Larry David, the genius behind Seinfeld, talks exclusively to Maxton Walker about why he moved in front of the camera for his new show - and explains why being unimaginably rich doesn't make you happy.


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Here in at the city center, the best way to travel get around is in on foot and if you want to do get some exercise, you can may rent a bike. It's cheaper, faster, and ecologically responsible. , and You will feel like an authentic Dutchman while you are riding on a bike. But If the day weather is cold or if it is raining rains you can may take the tram; it is the fastest way to get around town.
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|November 4, 2012 01:01 AM EDT
DUBAI, November 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
MENA's fastest growing loyalty program proves its value with survey results
Cobone, the MENA-based discounted ecommerce website, has announced that its recently launched loyalty scheme has attracted over 100,000 new members in one month, indicating the strength of its offering to the Middle East market.
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"Loyalty has become a new pillar for Cobone.com. Our customers have embraced our loyalty initiatives, with 5% of our rewards members purchasing more than 10 times in the last 4 weeks." said Paul Kenny, CEO of Cobone.com.
A recent Cobone survey conducted with 10,000 respondents showed that 63 percent of customers had purchased between 1 and 3 deals from Cobone in the last three months, with another 19 percent of frequent shoppers having purchased between 4-10 deals in the same period.
The survey indicated that 82 percent of respondents were swayed by price when considering purchasing a deal. The discount on offer, location of the deal, and the brand making the offer were also important factors.
Over 70 percent of respondents were highly interested in travel deals. Other popular categories include food & beverage, electronics, fashion and health & beauty.
"Cobone has seen significant growth in the past quarter as we have focused on both loyalty and innovation within the business. In the past two months we have launched a shopping cart, Cobone Rewards Program, and a hotel search and booking engine being the latest addition to the Cobone portfolio." Added Kenny.
Launched on the 28th of August 2012, Cobone's loyalty programme has already gained over 100,000 members that have spent over 1 million loyalty points with the company. The launch month saw repeat transactions rise by 40 percent over the preceding month, with repeat visits increasing by 60 percent.
"Customers can earn Cobone Rewards points by visiting and shopping on Cobone.com every day. By sharing the deals through Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Google+ customers can receive additional points to spend on the Cobone catalog. The programme has already rewarded 300 million loyalty points in just over a month of operation." Concluded Warrick Godfrey, CMO of Cobone.com
About Cobone.com
Launched in August 2010, Cobone.com is one of the fastest growing web sites in the region, currently with over 1,700,000 members and over $74 million dollars in savings (as of September 2012). Cobone.com gives its customers the chance to experience their city's best offers on spas, restaurants and outdoor experiences with discounts from 50 per cent to 90 per cent. A new deal is featured every day and customers are encouraged to invite their friends and family to take part in the deal, earning extra credit in the process. Cobone.com has evolved into a value ecommerce platform; customers can now also enjoy the latest electronics, fashion and household products on the site. Shopping on Cobone.com is safe and easy, and offers members all forms of payment options including credit cards, cash on delivery, Paypal, CashU, and OneCard.
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Scottish Voters
A Sketch from Real Life
We returned a few days
ago, from our annual excursion to our cottage in the Grampians,
whither we always resort during the grouse-shooting campaign; and
were it not that our magazine is devoted to canvassing the destinies
of men, rather than of moorfowl, we should willingly follow the bent
of our autumnal inclinations, and proceed to expatiate largely on
our Mantons and Purdies; on . our magazines of powder and shot; on
the very superior noses, the high breeding, and the finished
education of our stanch establishment of setters; to the leading dog
of which, in the exuberance of our political feelings, and of our
gratitude for the blessings our Premier has recently conferred upon
us, we have given the proud name of Earl Grey. We should give a
detailed account of all our varied warfare, both by land and by
water; on mountain, on moor, on river, on lake, and on tarn; of all
our successes, and of all our disappointments; particularly noticing
the days when our own unerring eyes, and undeviating double-barrels,
were the means of loading the backs of our gillies with full
game-bags, which happily chastened their alpine strides to an
equality with our more sober paces ; and again pointing out, with
great care, those extraneous, and altogether uncontrollable causes,
which, in defiance of our unvarying accuracy of aim, did, on certain
days, most unaccountably conspire to baffle us, and, much to our
dissatisfaction, left the broad shoulders of our Highlanders
altogether unincumbered. All this we should have told, together with
all the other incidental, accidental, transcendental, and minor
matters, naturally requiring to be recorded in a well-written
sporting tour. But at the present time, men's minds are too much
occupied with the fate of their country, and as a most important
feature of it, more immediately intent �on watching the probable
result of the future elections, for any such trifles as these to
find room in them. We shall therefore leave all such things to sleep
till some second Colonel Thornton shall arise, on some future
halcyon occasion, to celebrate our exploits; and we shall now hasten
to give an extract from our journal, which, we hope, may be found
not entirely unconnected with the all-engrossing subject of the
purity �of representation and of election.
Whilst on our way homewards, we sojourned one night in a small burgh
town lying in our route, and, after an early breakfast next morning,
we again mounted the driving seat of our dog-cart, and with as
sporting an attitude as we could possibly assume, the resistless
effect of which, indeed, was sufficiently proved by the undisguised
admiration exhibited by certain juvenile milliners' apprentices, who
watched our departure from a large bay window opposite our inn, we
started, and dashed down the street at a pace that called forth the
clamorous applause, not only of the raggamuffin boys, but also of
divers nondescript burgh curs which rushed forth from either side of
the way, to follow in the wake of our triumphal car, and to the
imminent jeopardy of certain aldermanic ducks, who, accustomed as
they had been all their lives to maintain the crown of the causeway
in dignified composure, in defiance even of tfie rapid wheel of his
Majesty�s mail coach, had, notwithstanding, very considerable
difficulty in waddling out of our way. in the midst of this our
vain-glorious career, and when we had almost reached the town's-end,
we suddenly experienced one of those reverses of fortune, which are
frequently sent, like salutary medicines, to reduce the fever of
human pride, when it rises above that degree which marks the truly
healthy state of the human mind. In driving over a deep kennel that
ran across the street, our machine sustained so rude a shock, that
we were fairly pitched upwards by the concussion, completely into
the air, like the ball from the trapshoe, and our persons descended
from this, their sudden elevation, with a weight and force so
tremendous, as instantly to produce a great, most unexpected, and
most alarming derangement of the equilibrium of our vehicle. � Woo�oo�oo�o
up cried we, pulling up our reins in very considerable dismay; and
in truth it was full time for us to do so, for the body of our
carriage hung over in so threatening a manner, that, had we not
succeeded in suddenly stopping our course, we, and carriage, and
dogs, and detonators, would have been tumbled in chaotic confusion
most ingloriously into the mud. As it happened, however, we managed
to descend very gingerly and without injury from our exalted
position, when, to our no small mortification, we discovered that in
consequence of the rude jerk we had received, one of our new patent
grasshopper springs had hopped altogether from its place, and been
broken in its most delicate part. So there we and our attendant
stood, utterly at a loss what to do, our faculties paralyzed by the
magnitude of our misfortune, surrounded by a crowd of inquisitive
but unaiding idlers; and to add to our confusion, as we were
consulting together, amidst the frequent interruptions of numerous
officious advisers among those who had assembled about us, two of
our gay and handsome milliners� girls came tripping along the
pavement, each with a band-box in her hand, and with a wicked simper
on her face, that made both of us bite our lips very sillily, and
look extremely foolish.
As there is no happiness without alloy in this life, so there are
few misfortunes altogether void of alleviating circumstances. By
good luck our accident had taken place exactly opposite to a forge,
over the door of which was painted in large letters, Robert
Strongitharm, Smith and Farrier;99 and as the brawny muscles of
Robert himself were at that moment actively employed in wielding a
ponderous fore-hammer, in the act of ringing a wheel belonging to an
old gig, which we observed standing by the side of the way, propped
up on one leg as it were, like some ballad-singing mendicant, we
resolved to put our case immediately into the horse-doctor�s hands.
'Like all members of the faculties of law, physic, farriery, and
iron-forging, when a new case is presented to them, Dr. Strongitharm
pronounced our case, or rather the grasshopper spring, to be a very
bad case. But, as he very properly observed, there seldom is any
case so bad but that it may be cured, provided a proper adviser, and
skilful operator can be obtained to plan and perfect its cure; and
he accordingly began honestly to congratulate us on our having been
tossed by our good fortune into hands so very experienced as his.
�It�s a kittle kind o� a job gentlemen,� said he; �but it�s weel for
ye that ye ha�e forgathered wi� ane gey an� weel acquaint wi� siccan
fasheous maitters. Had ye happened on yon useless scart o� a cratur,
Johnnie MacGruther, i� the grand shop yonder, twa three doors
farther up the street, though he kens mair than a do about pokers
an� tangs, an� nit-crackers, an� moose-fa�s, ma certy, ye might ha*
been lang eneuch i� the toon afore he could ha� sorted your spring.
But, let�s see !�Od, as this is a pressin' affair that winna� thole
delay, a'm no sure but a ha�e an auld gershapper that may do a� the
turn till ye win hame. Come here, Tammas; bring the pliers i� ye�re
hand. Haud up the body a wee better, man�noo, that 'ill do.� And the
smith was in the middle of the business in the twinkling of an eye.
Somewhat tickled by the humour of this son of Vulcan, and being
moreover very desirous to see the work forwarded, so that we might
be speedily again en route, we entered the smithy with our disabled
vehicle, whilst our servant put the horse into an adjoining stable.
There we stood silently watching the labours of Mr. Strongitharm and
his attendant Cyclops. The broad and good-natured visage of the
smith, that looked as if it had been modelled in black diamond,
first began to shine over the anvil, and then, by degrees, it even
appeared to ignite by the glow of the fire it was exposed to, until
at last it absolutely glowed like a piece of burning charcoal,
whilst he eagerly toiled to accomplish our wishes. As we lounged
about the place, yawning, and execrating our ill-luck, our attention
was attracted by the appearance of a fat little round-vis8ged man,
in an apron and sleeves, who entered the smithy, having been driven
into it by a sudden and heavy shower of rain; and after a few of
those preliminary nothings which usually serve as preface to a
Scottish dialogue between strangers,
�I see you are reformers here, sir," said one of us, pointing to an
old Reform Jubilee placard, fragments of which still adhered to the
smithy door.
�Ou ay, sir!� replied our man; �we�re a� stench reformers here.
Bless your heart, sir ! we had mony a petition here for Reform,
baith to the Parliament an* the Lords, an� the King an* a��an� after
the bull passed, od we had a percesshin an� a hantel o� flags�an� a
denner, an� speeches that wad na� ha�e disgraced Edinbroch itsell.
But here�s Mais-ter Messer, the haberdashery merchant, can tell ye
far better about it than I can. I�m say in��ye can tell the
gentleman a* aboot our Reform Jubile, Maister Messer,� continued he,
speaking to a thin, spare, and rather well-dressed man who then
entered, puffing and blowing, from his anxious haste to escape to a
�The Juboli?� said Mr. Mercer, wiping his bran new blue coat, and
his velvet neck, and his gilt buttons very carefully, with a scarlet
Menteith-dyed cotton pocket-handkerchief. �Oh yes, Mr. Dallas, I can
tell the gentlemen all about the Juboli, for you know I had the
honour of being one of the Juboli Cornyteee. I assure you,
gentlemen, it was got up with the greatest good taste�the flags and
devices were all admirable�nothing personally offensive to any one;
and as I happened to have the good fortune to have been present at
the Juboli in Edinburgh, I was not only enabled to supply all and
sundry with the proper ribbons and badges,�but I also had it in my
power to give many useful hints to the Corny teee, and although I
say it who should not say it, the Juboli here was thereby rendered
not unworthy of the great victory which Freedom has achieved in
�I hope you had a good turn out of reformers?� said one of us.
"Why, sir, the whole town are reformers here," replied Mr. Mercer;
�we set down to dinner about two hundred and fifty persons; and the
speeches, toasts, and songs were of the very first description.�
�Then Mr. A , the liberal candidate for these burghs, is sure of his
election, so far as this town is concerned,� said we, �and Mr. B�
the anti-reform candidate, .can have no chance?�
�Not the least chance in the world, sir,� replied the haberdasher;
�for, as I said before, we are all reformers here.�
�Ou ay, that we are!� echoed Mr. Dallas, the grocer; �a' stench
�Then, sir,� said one of us to the last speaker, �I need not ask you
whether you are to vote for Mr. A - or Mr. B?�
�Troth, sir," replied the grocer, �to tell ye the honest truth, I
ha�ena' just made up my mind aboot that pairt o� the story. It�s a
lang time yet or the yellection, an* I�m thinkin� that I�ll just tak
a thocht about it.�
�A thought about it, sir!� exclaimed one of us in a tone of
undisguised astonishment��a thought about it! How can you possibly
require one single thought, or hesitate one moment in a Case where
the contest lies between Mr. A�who has so long advocated the rights
of the people, and who has sacrificed his time, and given his labour
in the most patriotic and indefatigable maimer; all to bring about
the accomplishment of that grand work of reform, which, to carry
home the matter to yourself, has made you a voter for the member of
Parliament for this burgh. Can you hesitate, I say, between such a
man as him, and his opponent Mr. B , who has so long sat for these
burghs in the Commons� House, for no other purpose than to support
that very corruption and extravagance in the government of the
State, which has brought us to the very eve of political bankruptcy,
and who has uni. formly opposed every motion, however trifling,
which went in any way to enlarge the privileges of the people, or to
diminish those burdens under which they at present groan? Why, sir,
with the political feelings you have declared you possess, I cannot
understand how you could hesitate one moment in your choice between
two such candidates as Mr. A� and Mr. B� !�
�Od, sir, I dinna ken,� replied the grocer, �there's a great deal,
to be sure, in what you say. But I'm thinkin' I maun just tak* a
thocht aboot it.�
�He! he! he! Laukerdaisy, such a regular dull one you are, my dear
Mr. Dallas!� exclaimed the haberdashery merchant, with the titter of
a man-milliner. � What, man! bless my heart, can't ye make up your
mind to the right thing at once, without more Bhilly-shally? Surely
you can never go for to think for to vote for such an anti as Mr. B
� you who have signed every reform petition that was sent off from
this place? Why, what are ye thinking on?�*
�Od, I tell ye, I maun just tak' a thought about it, Maister
Messer,� replied the grocer.
�He! he! he! well, deuce take me if you have not been well nick,
named by the club, Dull Davy Dallas,� cried the haberdasher; �and if
I might be permitted to amend your nong de garr, I should propose
that instead of Dull Davy Dallas it should be Dull Davy Dowlas! Ha!
Mr. White,� continued he, addressing a baker who just then entered,
�you're a man of more spirit. I'll be bound you'll act after a more
bolder fashion, else I mistake you sadly. You'll give your vote to
the right one at once. You'll not hesitate long between Mr. A-. and
Mr. B�, I'll warrant me.�
"Ou, Mr. A 's the man for the people's rights, that�s true,� replied
the baker; �and as for the tither chap, it maun be admitted that he
has -dune a' thing that he could to keep them frae us; but ye ken
they're baith very good gentlemen, and sae a�m just no thinkin� o'
votin* at a'.�
�Angels and ministers of grace defend us! here is a determination
tenfold more extraordinary than the hesitation of the other
gentleman,� exclaimed one of us. � Why, sir, what in the world can
have brought you, a reformer, to so strange a resolution as this?*'
�A dinna ken,� replied the baker, with some little displeasure in
his countenance; "a divna see that am just obliged to answer that
question. The vote, a tak' it, is ma nane; an' a'm thinkin' a man
may lawfully do wiy his nane what he likes.�
�True, sir,� replied one of us, �you have the highest authority for
holding such doctrine�even that of an august and noble duke, no less
�who argued upon the great scale; that is, about whole levies of
burghs, exactly what you are now arguing on the small scale, for the
mere property of your vote. Put, sir, let me tell you, that if
election reform is to be terminated where it now stands, you must
begin to view your newly-acquired privilege in a light very
different from that under which it now appears to you; for, I put
this question to you, Why was it that the Legislature limited the
vote to the minimum of a ten-pound rent in a burgh, or a ten-pound
property in a county? and why did they refuse to give votes to
people of nine pounds, of five pounds, or of three pounds,�ay, sir,
or to people of one pound? but simply because they conceived that by
so vesting the power in what might be presumed to be the most
intelligent portion of the community; and that your right, being not
your right alone, sir, but the right of all those unprivileged
persons by whom you are surrounded, would be honestly and
conscientiously exercised for their behoof, as well as your own, and
therefore for the good of the whole. I hold, sir, that you are bound
by the duty you owe to your neighbours, who have no votes, or
rather, I should say, whose votes are confided to you to bestow
properly�I say, I hold that you are bound to give your vote either
one way or other. You dare not � in justice to your neighbours, who
may be called your copartners in it,� you dare not, I say, keep it
tied up in your napkin; and if you but give it according to your
conscience, you cannot be blamed, even if that conscience, after
having been fairly consulted, should tell you to give it against the
opinion of those very neighbours who have a share in it. But, if you
follow your conscience, you cannot go wrong; and, indeed, in your
own particular case, yon have already said enough to satisfy me
that, in the election about to take place, your wishes and your
conscience will go hand in hand together; and moreover, that they
will be found in full harmony with the wishes of that knot of
hitherto unfranchised persons, in the midst of whom you live, and
whose votes you represent; who look, let me tell you, with a jealous
eye on you, watching how you are to employ that vote, which will be
held by them to be, as it certainly is, the common property of them
"My eye! there's a speech for you, Master White! � exclaimed the
haberdasher, slapping the baker's back, till the twelvemonth's
dusting of flour, which had gradually accumulated in his jacket,
arose and enveloped us like a mist. "There's a speech for ye, my
boy! what say ye to that? Why, that would have done for our last
dinner. What say ye to that, I say?"
"Troth, sir, a'll just tell ye the truth,� replied the baker: "a
ha'e not muckle to say, that's certain; an* there's nae doot muckle
gude sense in what this gentleman has said. Weel, indeed, might he
speak at dinner or at liustin's aither. But possiteeveley a wunna
"Why, what a soft un you are, Mr. "White!� exclaimed the
haberdasher; �you�re one hundred per cent a worse article than Dull
David Dowlas here. I tell ye, you are as soft as your own dough !
But I am up to the cause of your not voting, Master White. You know
that Mr. B is son-in-law to the Earl of C ; and the Earl of C,
wonderful to behold ! after having, all his life, for his own
private purposes, pretended to be the man for the people�so far,
indeed, as to have been considered somewhat of a republican in the
days of the Reign of Terror in France, at the end of the last
century�has now most strangely discovered that his own private
purposes require that he should fight like -a Turkish Jannissary
against freedom wherever it appears. He is the maddest of all the
mad antis now going. But, Mr. White, hark in your ear, he takes his
household bread from you, and you are afraid to lose his custom. But
why don't you act boldly and independently, as I
mean to do, and defy the old earl, and the old devil, and all hie
works? Ah ! you are soft as your own dough, Master White J�
�Sir,� said the baker, sulkily, �a'd wish ye to keep in mind, that
gif a�m dough, an� soft yenoo, a may grow mair crusty than may
please your chafts, if a'm but made het aneuch; sae, a'd advise you
to keep your, jokes mair till yeresell. A say again what a said
afore, an� that is, that possiteevely a wunna vote ava; � and with
that Mr. White abruptly left the smithy.
�He's a poor spiritless fellow that," said the haberdasher, after
eying his retreating steps for some time, till he saw he was
effectually out of all hearing. �If all reformers were like him,
indeed, what would become of the great cause ? Aweel, how goes the
county, Farmer Black?*' continued he, now addressing a stout young
country-looking man, who at this moment dismounted at the smithy
door to have one of his horse�s shoes fastened. �How goes the reform
cause in the county? Is the reform candidate, Sir D -, sure of his
�A�m thinkin' he�s gey an� shure,�� replied the farmer, shortly.
�I�m sure you wish him well at all events?� said the haberdasher.
�A�m no sayin� but a do,�� briefly replied Farmer Black.
�Ay, ay," said Mercer, �many's the good bumper of punch that you and
I drank together to the glorious cause of reform, on that market
day, you remember, when you stopped to take a bit of chack of dinner
with me, after buying so many gowns, and shawls, and ribbons for
your mother and sisters�ay, and may-be for some other lass, too, for
aught I know to the contrary. You know you sold your nowt well that
day; and I�m bold to say I never beheld a finer show of beauty than
your large hay-cart exhibited on the glorious day of the Juboli,
standing at the corner of the street; when the old lady and the
girls, all dressed in my new gowns and finery, were placed bolt
upright in it, thick set together like so many pots of stock
gillyflowers and marygolds, as I passed by you bearing the banner,
with the painting of a loom upon it, surmounted by a trifling jew
desprite of my own, (for I now and then rhyme a little, ye must
know, if the murder must out)�surmounted, I say, by the words
When I set up my loom
My pattern shall be
Russell, Althorpe, and Brougham,
Who have made us all free!
Then for honest Joe Hume,
I shall surely find room;
And my colour, I say,
Shall be that of Earl Grey.�
Oh for the time when minstrels pour'd
Their poeans for the great and glorious,
When truth and freedom were abhorr�d,
And Tories all were merrytorious
When every prince was wise and good,
By the sheer force of birth and station;
And princesses all hearts subdued,
Which heat for beauty and the nation;
When loved by loyal lords and knights,
They shone Lucretias in their carriage;
E�en though they claim�d the marriage-
Not waiting for the rites of marriage!
Such were the days of England�s pride,
When she was strong, and great, and moral;
When every muse in meanness vied,
As if they struggled for the laurelt
Oh! would some pow�r those days renew,
And wake the Muses from their slumber
To tell how generous is Buccleuch,
How liberal the Loid of Clumber!
To tell with what a fearless speed
Our prince upon the footpath dashes,
And frights some ladies with his steed,
And others with his grim mustaches
How stout Sir George to rob the Guelph,
Of such a vast amount of glory,
Took the whole honour to himself,
And told a very barefaced story!
Alas! some muse, from trammels free,
Has hinted with malicious 6lyness,
How very false a knight may be,
How very low a Royal Highnets.
But let her hint; on truth we'll lean,
Though, faith! the story was a poser ;
If far from Perfect he has been,
'Twas right to draw a little closer.
If this wont do, we'll blame the steed,
The rein, the spur, and drop a hint in�
Their eyes were fathers of the deed;
For one is blind, and t'other s quintin*!
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