But Slander says, who indistinctly sees,

Once he was caught with Silvia on his knees—

A cautious burgess with a careful wife

To be so caught!—'tis false, upon my life.

Next are a lower kind, yet not so low

But they, among them, their distinctions know;

And, when a thriving landlord aims so high

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As to exchange the Chequer for the Pye,

Or from Duke William to the Dog repairs,