But only mind the when and how:
Take your per centage, but with care;
And who will say it is not fair?
—I've serv'd the wealthy and the great,
Nay once a Minister of state,
And as I saw that in his station
He did not fail to rob the nation,
I thought I might indulge the whim,
As a turn serv'd, to pilfer him.
I courted too my Lady's maid,