Come bustling, and rustling, and jostling along;

For his lordship was pleased that the company now

To my Lady Bunbutter should courtesy and bow;

And my lady was pleased, too, and seemed vastly proud

At once to receive all the thanks of a crowd.

And when, like Chaldeans, we all had adored

This beautiful image set up by my lord,

Some few insignificant folk went away,

Just to follow the employments and calls of the day;

But those who knew better their time how to spend,