When at the royal eagle's ear.
He longs to ease the monarch's care.
The monarch grants. With proud elate,
Behold him, minister of state!
Around him throng the feather'd rout;
Friends must be served, and some must out:
Each thinks his own the best pretension;
This asks a place, and that a pension.
The nightingale was set aside:
A forward daw his room supplied.[[14]]