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
Heretical stomachs that thus dissent,