The expense of this strange masquerade?"
"The expense!—Oh that's of course defrayed,"
(Said one of these well-fed Hecatombers)
"By yonder rascally rice consumers."
"What! they, who mustn't eat meat!"—
"No matter—"
(And while he spoke his cheeks grew fatter),
"The rogues may munch their Paddy crop,
But the rogues must still support our shop.
And, depend upon it, the way to treat