| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Georgian Verse. 1909. | | | | Another to the Same | | By Henry Fielding (1707–1754) |
| | | GREAT sir, as on each levée day | |
| I still attend you—still you say | |
| I’m busy now, to-morrow come; | |
| To-morrow, sir, you’re not at home, | |
| So says your porter, and dare I | 5 |
| Give such a man as him the lie? | |
| In imitation, sir, of you, | |
| I keep a mighty levée too; | |
| Where my attendants, to their sorrow, | |
| Are bid to come again to-morrow. | 10 |
| To-morrow they return, no doubt, | |
| And then like you, sir, I’m gone out. | |
| So says my maid—but they, less civil, | |
| Give maid and master to the devil; | |
| And then with menaces depart, | 15 |
| Which could you hear would pierce your heart. | |
| Good sir, or make my levée fly me, | |
| Or lend your porter to deny me. | | | | |
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