My Lord, quoth Guilt, this daring fiend

Won’t let us sin in private;

To his presumption there’s no end,

Both high and low he’ll drive at.

Last year he smoak’d the cleric[3] gown;

A D——ss now he’d sweat.

The insolent, for half a crown,

Would libel all the Great.

What I can do, his Lordship cries,

Command you freely may: