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to that ' flick of the whip ' — alcohol taken during 

 the day. 



Cramming his grace like a turkey-cock was part of 

 the journalists' and others' method of killing him; 

 this they again did in 1804. The fresh report again 

 stirred the muse of some would-be Laureate to quote 

 a scrap of Horace and then rush into verse : 



ELEGY 



On the Supposed Death of the Duke of Queensberry in 1804. 

 ' Longa Tythonum minuit Senedus.' — Horace. 



' And what is all this grand to do 

 That runs each street and alley through ? 

 'Tis the departure of ' Old Q,' 

 The star of Piccadilly. 



' The king, God bless him ! gave a whew ! 

 " Two dukes just dead — a third gone too, 

 What ! what ! could nothing save ' Old Q ' 1 

 The star of Piccadilly." 



' " Thank Heaven ! thank Heaven 1 " exclaims Miss Prue ; 

 ' My mother, and grandmother too, 

 Can now walk safe from that vile ' Q,' 

 The star of Piccadilly." 



' The jockey boys, Newmarket's crew, 

 Who know a " little thing — or two," 

 Cry out : " He 's done ! We 've done ' Old Q ' ! 

 The star of Piccadilly." 



