And striving who should silence break,
They all at once rose up to speak:
Till by his majesty’s command,
Their forward zeal was soon restrain’d;
Who calmly bidding them sit down,
And let him hear them one by one,
Th’ impatient Monkey thus began:
“Pleasure, my liege, is free from strife,
To lead a thoughtless, easy life;
Airy, and wild, and brisk, and gay,