Dr. Watts.
The French Sluggard.
’Tis the moan of old Louis,[48] I hear him complain;
“I’ve deluded my people to warfare with Spain;”
As the priests are at mass, so is he on his throne,
An imbecile monarch, an indolent drone.
A little more craft, and a little more ruling,
Thus his days and his hours have been wasted in fooling
And when he snores up, for his capon and crown,