Fair lady with the bandaged eye!
  I ’ll pardon all thy scurvy tricks,
So thou wilt cut me, and deny
  Alike thy kisses and thy kicks:
I ’m quite contented as I am,
  Have cash to keep my duns at bay,
Can choose between beefsteaks and ham,
  And drink Madeira every day.

My station is the middle rank,
  My fortune—just a...