Are minds perverse, there’s something will be wrong;

Men are not equal; some will claim a right

To be the kings and heroes of the night;

Will their own favourite themes and notions start,

And you must hear, offend them, or depart.

There comes Sir Thomas from his village-seat,

Happy, he tells us, all his friends to meet;

He brings the ruin’d brother of his wife,

Whom he supports, and makes him sick of life;

A ready witness whom he can produce