‘One word, or two I merely wish to say,
‘A trifling circumstance, about the Pay:[99]
‘If an Artificer a Work engages,
‘He contracts to receive a certain Wages;
‘If that’s withheld, he strikes—but here ’tis clear,
‘Our’s daily strike, tho’ paid but once a Year.
‘They only Strike, ’tis true; but when we need ’em,
‘Then not for Lucre, but their Country’s freedom.
‘Grumble they don’t, but yet it would be best,
‘To have, no doubt, some little in the Chest.’