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!