What Is a Peer ?
What is a Peer ? An useless thing—1
A costly toy to please a King—2
A
bauble near the throne ;3
A lump of animated clay—4
A gaudy pageant of the day—5
An incubus—a drone.6
What is a Peer ? A nation’s curse—7
A pauper on the public purse—8
Corruption’s own jackal ;9
A haughty domineering blade—10
A
cuckold at a masquerade—11
A
dandy at a ball.12
Ye butterflies, whom King’s create—13
Ye caterpillars of the State,—14
Know that your time is near ;15
Enlightened France will lead the van,16
To overthrow your worthless clan ;17
This moral learn—that God made man,18
But never made a peer.19