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.