From all the shackles of the Vulgar free;

All common rules they doubted or denied; }

Each for himself determined to decide, }

And to himself be Law, rule, Governor and Guide. }

Old as it was, its Lords were much afraid

T’inspect the Mansion in the part decay’d, 450

For twofold Reasons: first, that from the part

Contiguous Ruin into View would start;

And next, they found, so many a Call had shar’d

The Current Cash, that nothing could be spar’d.