The Works of Henry Fielding/To The Same (Fielding)

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 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. 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, Which could you hear would pierce your heart.

Good sir, or make my levée fly me, Or lend your porter to deny me.