Am fortified with title-deeds, attested, signed and sealed,

Guaranteeing me, my assigns, my executors and heirs

All sorts of powers and profits which--are neither mine nor theirs.

I have rights of chase and warren, as my dignity requires.

I can fish--but Hobden tickles. I can shoot--but Hobden wires.

I repair, but he reopens, certain gaps which, men allege,

Have been used by every Hobden since a Hobden swapped a hedge.

Shall I dog his morning progress o'er the track-betraying dew?

Demand his dinner-basket into which my pheasant flew?

Confiscate his evening faggot into which the conies ran,