"What! double tax'd, unpension'd, unprefer'd,
"In such bad times be easy? most absurd! "
Yet heav'n vouchsafes the daily bread intreated;
And these bad times have left me free to eat it:
My taxes, gladly paid, their nature shift;
If just, cheap purchase; if unjust, a gift:
Nor knows ambition any rank so great;
My servants, kings, and ministers of state!
They watch my couch, my humble roof defend;
Their toil the means, my happiness the end.