Don Juan 03-082
Canto the Third

     LXXXII
Their poet, a sad trimmer, but no less
     In company a very pleasant fellow,
Had been the favourite of full many a mess
     Of men, and made them speeches when half mellow;
And though his meaning they could rarely guess,
     Yet still they deign'd to hiccup or to bellow
The glorious meed of popular applause,
Of which the first ne'er knows the second cause.

George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron (1788-1824) 
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