III

They shipp’d me of for it; I’m here again.

Old England is my dam, whate’er I be!

Says I, I’ll tramp it home, and see the grain:

If you see well, you’re king of what you see:

Eyesight is having,

If you’re not given, I said, to gluttony.

Such talk to ignorance sounds as raving.

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