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!