To their superior rooms the wealthy drive;

Others look round for lodging snug and small,

Such is their taste - they’ve hatred to a hall:

Hence one his fav’rite habitation gets,

The brick-floor’d parlour which the butcher lets;

Where, through his single light, he may regard

The various business of a common yard,

Bounded by backs of buildings form’d of clay,

By stable, sties, and coops, et caetera.

The needy-vain, themselves awhile to shun,