Nor light them soon nor burn them low,

And part upon the Cook bestow;

No wretch alive would be that despot,

To go to rob the woman's grease-pot!

Though some may say you rob their pockets,

By what is wasted in the sockets:

A plague on all such meanness! scout it,

And never vex your sconce about it.

The noblest task in all your line,

Is bottling off a Pipe of Wine;