KIRK AND STATE EXCISEMEN
YE men of wit and wealth, why all this sneering
'Gainst poor Excisemen? Give the cause a hearing:
What are your Landlord's rent-rolls? —taxing ledgers!
What Premiers? —What ev'n Monarchs?—mighty Gaugers!
Nay, what are Priests? (those seeming godly wise-men,)
What are they, pray, but Spiritual Excisemen!