Let Mum be your maxim ... beware of contagion ...
For Anger is catching as Fever or Plague:
Now Victuals is scanty,
And Eaters are plenty,
The former must rise, or the latter decrease;
If in War they're employ'd,
Till one half are destroy'd,
The few that are left will have more Bread and Cheese.
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Think not that Employment's the grand requisition;