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 in 2017 with funding from 
 Getty Research Institute 
 
 https://archive.org/details/palacethatnhbuilOOhume 
 
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This is the beautiful Ball in the Cup, 
 
 Which the tasteful Committee in wisdom set up 
 On the top’Of the Palace that N- — -H built. 
 
These are the Wings which by estimate round 
 Are said to have cost forty-two thousand pound, 
 
 And which not quite according with Royalty’s taste, 
 
 Are doom’d to come down and be laid into waste ; 
 
 (So to make up the loss of such changing and chopping, 
 The pay of poor clerks they’re eternalfy docking,) 
 
 But they touch not the beautiful Ball in the Cup, 
 
 AVhich the tasteful Committee in wisdom set up 
 On the top of the Palace that N — — H built. 
 
This is the Hill, the Magnificent Motind, 
 
 Thrown up in the Garden, full half a mile round. 
 Thickly planted with trees, and as high as a steeple. 
 
 To protect from the breeze and to hide from the people 
 These much -talk’d- of Wings which by estimate round 
 Are said to have cost forty-two thousand pound. 
 
 And which not quite according with Royalty’s taste. 
 
 Are doom’d to come down and be laid into waste ; 
 
 (So to make up the loss of such changing and chopping. 
 The pay of poor clerks they’re eternally docking,) 
 
 But they touch not the beautiful Ball in the Cup, 
 
 Which the tasteful Committee in wisdom set up 
 On the top of the Palace that N -H built. 
 
These are the Fountains, the PromeMes, and Rides, 
 ( And twould puzzle old Harry to tell what besides,) 
 Which lead from the Hill, the magnificent Mound, 
 Thrown up in the Garden, full half a mile round. 
 Thickly planted with trees, and as high as a steeple. 
 
 To protect from the breeze and to hide from the people 
 These much-talk’d-of Wings which by estimate round 
 Are said to have cost forty-two thousand pound, 
 
 And which not quite according with Royalty’s taste. 
 Are doom’d to come down and be laid into waste ; 
 
 (So to make up the loss of such changing and chopping, 
 The pay of poor clerks they’re eternally docking,) 
 
 But they touch not the beautiful Ball in the Cup, 
 vVhich the tasteful Committee in wisdom set up 
 On the top of the Palace that N H built. 
 
These are the Pyramids, Temples, and Ditches, 
 
 Where Naiads and Cupids are seen without breeches, 
 
 (For such things in the West are allowed, and thought •pretty ^ 
 Though Venus and Cupids darerit go in the City,) 
 
 Who preside o’er the Fountains, the Promenades and Rides, 
 (And 'twould puzzle old Harry to tell what besides,) 
 
 Which lead from the Hill, the magnificent Mound, 
 
 Thrown up in the Garden, full half a mile round. 
 
 Thickly planted with trees, and as high as a steeple, * 
 
 To protect from the breeze and to hide from the people 
 These much-talk’d-of Wings which by estimate round 
 Are said to have cost forty -two thousand pound, 
 
 And which not quite according with Royalty’s taste. 
 
 Are doom’d to come down and be laid into waste; 
 
 (So to make up the loss of such changing and chopping, 
 
 The pay of poor clerks they’re eternally docking,) 
 
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Tills is the large Pond of Water, or Basin, 
 
 Where the Royal Narcissus may see his dear face in, 
 
 Ere he rove ’mong the Pyramids, Temples, and Ditches, 
 W'here Naiads and Cupids are seen without breeches, 
 
 (For such things in the West are allow’d, and thought ■pretty. 
 Though Venus and Cupids daren’t go in the City,') 
 
 Who preside o^er the Fountains, the Promenades and Rides, 
 (And ’twould puzzle old Harry to tell what besides,) 
 
 W'hich lead from the Hill, the magnificent Mound, 
 
 Thrown up in the Garden, full half a mile round. 
 
 Thickly planted with trees, and as high as a steeple. 
 
 To protect from the breeze and to hide from the people 
 These much-talk’d-of Wings which by estimate round 
 Are said to have cost forty-two thousand pound. 
 
 And which not quite according with Royalty’s taste. 
 
 Are doom’d to come down and be laid into waste ; 
 
 (So to make up the loss of such changing and chopping, 
 
 The pay of poor clerks they’re eternally docking,) 
 
 But they touch not the beautiful Ball in the Cup, 
 
 Which the tasteful Committee in wisdom set up 
 On the top of the Palace that N H built. 
 

Tills is the Entrance, the Triumphal Arch, 
 
 Which, ’tis said, will be probably finish’d in March, 
 
 (And, compared with the elegant gates of Hyde Park, 
 
 May justly be term’d tasteless, gloomy, and dark,) 
 
 Which leads to the large Pond of Water, or Basin, 
 
 Where the Royal Narcissus may see his dear face in, 
 
 Ere he rove ’mong the Pyramids, Temples, and Ditches, 
 Where Naiads and Cupids are seen without breeches, 
 
 ( For such things in the West are allow'd, and thought ■pretty. 
 Though Venus and Cupids daren't go in the City,) 
 
 Who preside o’er the Fountains, the Promenades, and Rides, 
 (And ’twould puzzle old Harry to tell what besides,) 
 
 Which lead from the Hill, the magnificent Mound, 
 
 Thrown up in the Garden, full half a mile round. 
 
 To protect from the breeze and to hide from the people 
 Thickly planted with trees, and as high as a steeple, 
 
 These much-talk’d-of wings which by estimate round 
 Are said to have cost forty-two thousand pound. 
 
 And which not quite according with Royalty’s taste. 
 
 Are doom’d to come down and be laid into waste; 
 
 (So to make up the loss of such changing and chopping, 
 
 The pay of poor clerks they’re eternally docking,) 
 
 But they touch not the beautiful Ball in the Cup, 
 
 Which the tasteful Committee in wisdom set up 
 Gn the top oi fhe Palace that N H built. 
 
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WWch lead from the Hill, the magnificent Mound, 
 Thrown'up in the Garden, full half a mile round. 
 Thickly planted with trees, and as high as a steeple. 
 
 To protect from the breeze and to hide from the people 
 These much-talk’d-of Wings which by estimate round 
 Are said to have cost forty.two thousand pound. 
 
 And which not quite according with Royalty's taste, 
 Are doom’d to come down and be laid into waste ; 
 
 (So to make up the loss of such changing and chopping 
 The pay of poor clerks they’re eternally docking,) 
 
 But they touch not the beautiful Ball in the Cup, 
 Which the tasteful Committee in wisdom set up 
 On the top of the Palace that N H built. ■ 
 
This is the Man whom they Johnny Bull call. 
 
 And who very reluctantly pays for it all, 
 
 Who from his youth upwards has work'd? like a slave, 
 
 But the devil a shilling is able to save ; 
 
 For such millions expended in mortar and stone, 
 
 Have drawn corpulent John down to bare skin and bone ; 
 And, what is still worse, 'tween Greeks, Turks, and Russians. 
 He’ll soon be at war with French, Austrians, and Prussians. 
 But he’s kindly permitted to grumble and gaze, 
 
 Say and think what he will, 'provided he pays; 
 
 To rail at the Palace and Triumphal Arch, 
 
 Which, 'tis said, will be probably finish'd in March, 
 
 (And, compared with the elegant gates of Hyde Park, 
 
 May justly be term’d tasteless, gloomy, and dark,) 
 
 Which leads to the large Pond of Water, or Basin, 
 
 Where the Royal Narcissus may see his dear face in. 
 
 Ere he rove 'mong the Pyramids, Temples, and Ditches, 
 Where Naiads and Cupids are seen without breeches, 
 
 (For such things in the West are allow'd, and thought pretty , 
 Though Venus and Cupids daren't go in the City,) 
 
 Who preside o’er the Fountains, the Promenades, and Rides, 
 (And ’twould puzzle old Harry to tell what besides,) 
 
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