We enjoy our ease and rest,
To the fields we are not pressed
And when taxes are increased
We are not a penny ’sessed.
Nor will any go to law,
With a Maunder for a straw,
All which happiness, he brags,
Is only owing to his rags.
From The History of Bampfylde-Moore Carew, King of the Mendicants. London, 1749.