Pay tax and toll, then borne the booty to enrich

Her paradise i' the waste; the how and why of which,

That is the secret, there the mystery that stings!

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For, what they traffic in, consists of just the things

We,—proud ones who so scorn dwellers without the pale,

Bateleurs, baladines, white leviers of black mail,

I say, they sell what we most pique us that we keep!

How comes it, all we hold so dear they count so cheap?