And kept the key of the old cellar, and old plate, and chipp'd the brown bread.
If an old barrel was missing, it was easily said,
That the very old beer was one morning found dead:—
But it was in Moderation, &c.
But, we had a good old custom, when the week did begin,
To show, by my accounts, I had not wasted a pin;—
For my lord, tho' he was bountiful, thought waste was a sin;
And never would lay out much, but when my lady lay-in.
But still it was Moderation.