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Which last is a scheme of ' paper money,
And l1lCansbeing interpreted­
"Bees, keep your wax-give us the honey,
And we will plant, while skies arc sunny,
Flowers, which in winter serve instead."
VI
There is a great talk of revolution­
And a gt'cat chance of despotism­
German soldiers--camps--confusion­
Tumults-lottcrics-ragc-delusion­
Gill-suicide-and methodism;
VII
Taxes too, on wine and bread,
And meat, and heel', and tea, and cheese,
Frolll which those patriots pure are fed,
Who gorge before they reel to hed
The tenfold essence of all these.
IX
Lawyers-judges-old hohnobhers
Are thcl'c-bailiffs-chancellors­
Bishops-great and little robhers­
Rhymcstcrs-pamphletccrs-stock-jobbers­
Men of glory in the war8,-
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Things whose trade is, over ladies
To lean, and flirt, and stat'e, and simper,
Till all that is divine in woman
Grows eruel, eoul'teous, smooth, inhuman,
Crucified 'twixt a smile and a whimper,
Shelley, "Peter Bell the Third" ("Part the Thinl: Hell"). fiO [M!8]
illuminating for the conception of the crowd: in "Des Vetters Eckfenster"