On that laced jacket, framed of superfine.

How large a nation may a little net

Confine—what traps are in those trappings set!

Will the King give, what he has gained, a crown,

To Jones, Clark, Thompson, Jackson, Smith, or Brown?

All penceless pockets theirs—the man with cakes

For them stands still, or eats the tarts he makes.

Yet see yon lady; fifty pearls at least

Circle her arms, and might an army feast.

That zone for which a princess might have pined,