Such as the Men with little Minds admire;
Such as became the May’r and pleased the Squire;
Such as the Mayor’s and the Captain’s Wife
Could best display and picture to the Life—
All the small Scandal of a Place so small 70
That we might wonder whence arose it all;
With Borough-Business of such high Concern,
That poor Matilda was compell’d to learn
What Honours fell upon their Heads, and how
The worthy Burgess took the Member’s Bow,