While I, his master and his lord,

A hearty breakfast-eater reckoned,

No longer at my frugal board

Enjoy the pleasures of my second.

Controllers!—I detest the tribe;

Freedom I hold in deep devotion;

Why should they want to circumscribe

My powers of rapid locomotion?

My whole I can no longer buy,

'Tis useless to attempt to beg it;