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   But what “lady patron” as queen holds the sway;

   Or sweeping, whose hoops in the street are most sweeping;

   The burthen is not of this truth-telling lay,

   That should in its reading the world set to weeping,

   While telling the suff’rings from head to the feet,

   Of poor human beings with nothing to eat.