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With clouted iron shoes, and sheep-skin breeches, / More rags than manners, and more dirt than riches, / From driving cows and calves to Leyton market, / While of my greatness there appear'd no spark yet, / Behold I come to let you see the pride, / With which exalted beggars always ride.
Born to the needful labours of the plough, / The cart-whip graced me, as the chain does now.