If I the pilf'ring track pursue
Which hireling knaves so often do.
When from the shopmen we receive
The somethings they are us'd to give
As their long, bouncing bills are paid,
'Tis not our Knight is tax'd, but trade,
Though should we not our poundage claim
Sum Totals would be just the same.
—E'en when, as if a boon, I crave
Some superfluity to save,