Say that you thought it most judicious
Not to appear "the least malicious:"
And when you're tired of blaming flunkey,
Comes lap-dog, parrot, cat, and monkey.
'Twill vastly mend your situation,
To meet with one false accusation;
For ev'ry fault you thence commit,
Of course you think it just and fit
To make to that some pert allusion,
To all the family's confusion: