Stifling his shame by drink, a wretch will come,
And prate your wife and daughter from the room:
In pain you hear him, and at heart despise,
Yet with heroic mind your pangs disguise;
And still in patience to the sot attend,
To show what man can bear to serve a friend.
One enters hungry - not to be denied,
And takes his place and jokes - “We’re of a side.”
Yet worse, the proser who, upon the strength
Of his one vote, has tales of three hours’ length;