(In this there is no impropriety)
We've the social and private affections
Which belong to our grade in society.
If I lay a man 'neath obligation,
Of course he'll oblige me again;
But we never take remuneration—
For we're all of us "hon'rable men."
If the daughter of one of our Board
(And such things have occurred in the body),
By winning the hand of a Lord