A carriage of every conceivable sort;

A britschka, a Clarence, landau, and pilentum,

He must purchase as fast as the makers invent 'em.

Each vehicle fashion compels him to take,

Till "Ten Thousand a Year" is reduced to a break.

Of lazy domestics, in liv'ry and out,

A tribe must be kept to be lounging about,

On wages exorbitant, though, it is true,

They've nothing on earth—but their master—to do.

The larder, as well as the pockets, they clear: