We saw my lord, and Lady Jane was there,

And said to Johnson, ‘Johnson, take a chair.’

True, we are servants in a certain way, 600}

But in the higher places so are they; }

We are obey’d in ours, and they in theirs obey.— }

So Johnson bow’d, for that was right and fit,

And had no scruple with the earl to sit—

Why look you so impatient while I tell

What they debated?—you must like it well.

“‘Let them go on,’ our gracious earl began;