Have some of you three hundred by the Year,
Booth, Rich, and Cibber, twice three thousand clear.
Should Oxford to her sister Cambridge join
A Year's Rack-rent, and Arbitrary fine:
Thence not one winter's charge would be defray'd,
For Playhouse, Opera, Ball, and Masquerade.
Glad I congratulate the judging Age,
The players are the world, the world the stage.
I am a Politician too, and hate
Of any party, ministers of state: