And wanton Lice through all their ringlets ramble.

Not that these Gamesome Merriments we find,

As in some Countries, to the Poor confin’d;

Here does their influence undisputed Reign,

From Courtly Nobles, to the humble Swain.

But to resume, poor John, as it was late,

Sadly submitted to his wretched fate;

Rejected Food, on Canteens stretch’d he lay,

And sullen watch’d for the returning Day.