Clanks in your face his literary chain;

Stop, tyrants! who, for your peculiar gain,

By day and night the contents of his brain

drain.

He sows the seed, you gather in the crops;

You sack the till, and he supplies your shops;

You quaff champagne, while meanest malt and hops

Do scarcely once a fortnight enter Slop's

chops.

So wickedly does fortune treat our crew;