Let every servant feel as great,

As if his Master's whole estate

Were meant to furnish prog and pelf

But for his individual self.

The Cook, for instance, thinks it queer

If twenty thousand pounds a-year

Won't make the household richly dine,—

And so the Butler thinks of wine.

Groom, Coachman, all the rest 'run on,'

Till sometimes all the money's gone.