How jocund look they if their luck prevail!
How grand their manner when they deign to speak!
Let not the legislator deem it harm
That others trifle with the laws he breaks;
Nor rich knaves hear, with counterfeit alarm,
That men distress’d will often make mistakes.
The boast of honesty, the laws dread power,
And all that pride of feeling can achieve,
Await alike the inevitable hour,
The rage for gaming leads us all to thieve.