Immune from fraud's accustomed penalties,

Sells me a stuff compound of string and lead,

And has the nerve to name the substance bread.

But deafer far to the voice of conscience grown

The type that cuts me off a pound of bone

Wherefrom an ounce of fat forlornly drops,

And calls the thing two shillings' worth of chops;

More steeped in crime the heart that dares to fleece

My purse of eighteen-pence for one small piece

Of tripe, whereof, when times were not so hard,