Therefore native want hath pined, where foreign need was fattened;
Woman been crushed by the tyrannous hand that upheld the flag of liberality;
Poverty been prisoned up and starved, by hearts that are maudlin upon crime;
And freeborn babes been manacled by men, who liberate the sturdy slave.
Policy counselleth a gift, given wisely and in season,
And policy afterwards approveth it, for great is the influence of gifts.
The lover, unsmiled upon before, is welcome for his jewelled bauble;
The righteous cause without a fee, must yield to bounteous guilt:
How fair is a man in thine esteem, whose just discrimination seeketh thee,
And so, discerning merit, honoureth it with gifts!