To make us tame fools, and believe black is white, Sir?

All friends to our freedom that creature must hate

Who pockets three hundred a year from the state.’

‘Gad troth, maister Rattlesnake, why do you mantion,

With so much asperity, Sir, that word pansion?

The Doctor deserves na sic thing—but what then

In troth, I weel know many axcellent men,

Who never have thought it a shame or disgrace

T’accept a wee pansion or snug pratty place;

But then they have a’ sat doun selent as deeth—