Careful Words

lobby (n.)

lobby (v.)

But Titus said, with his uncommon sense,

When the Exclusion Bill was in suspense:

"I hear a lion in the lobby roar;

Say, Mr. Speaker, shall we shut the door

And keep him there, or shall we let him in

To try if we can turn him out again?"

James Bramston (1694-1744): Art of Politics.