With look of affluence drew me from the road;

But grumbling there a residence had found,

Light was so plaguy dear at that abode.

Hard was the answer, and the cut was sore;

Here, where I hoped for good a pound a head,

A maid-of-all-work drove me from the door,

“We pays too much for Winder Tax,” she said.

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A great success I thought would be my lot,

When, for a lark, I broach’d my plan, one morn;