I’m monarch of all I survey;
At least, when I put it like that,
I mean, if I’m willing to pay,
There’s nothing that I can’t get at.
I heard it was so from the fust,
When I thought that I would be a swell,
If I liked to come down with the dust,
Why everything then would be well.
Now a wife was my most pressing need,
That ’ad plenty of breeding and blood;