Chuse their own partners and their places;
But, tir’d themselves with these distractions,
Resolv’d at last the several factions
(For in their anger all had wit)
Some terms of union to admit,
Which, that more firmly they might bind,
Drawn in this form by all were sign’d:
We the contracting steeds, (exprest
Here was the name of each prime beast,
As Di’mond, Sawney, Duke) however