With ease that loss the nation might sustain,

Supply'd by Goodman's Fields and Drury-lane.

Oxford and Cambridge are not worth one farthing,

Compar'd to Haymarket, and Convent-garden:

Quit those, ye British Youth, and follow these,

Turn players all, and take your 'Squires degrees.

Boast not your incomes now, as heretofore,

Ye book-learn'd Seats! the Theatres have more:

Ye stiff-rump'd heads of Colleges be dumb,

A singing Eunuch gets a larger Sum.