And vow the collar’s never off their necks.
Others declare the ancient precept stuff,
And say one day in seven’s not enough;
So half another day is, so to speak,
Transferred from work to pleasure every week,
While now we have, our hard-worked lives to cheer,
Four extra holidays in every year.
Truth is, to neither party should we lean,
But ’twixt them both essay to hit the mean;
Some of hard work get far too large a share,