‘Volumes would not do justice to their merits;

‘Suffice it must to say, their Country’s weal

‘Can never be sustain’d by nobler Zeal.

‘I’ll now describe how is arrang’d the Stock,

‘The distribution of each Herd, and Flock:

‘A Master Shepherd is attach’d to each,

‘The whole to manage, ignorant to teach.

‘A Junior to each Flock, Clerk, Surveyor,[90]

‘A Whipper-in also, to catch the Strayer,—

‘Herdsmen and Salesmen[91]—perhaps two Dogs or more,