Fragment X: With kine and horses, Kurnus! we proceed

With kine and horses, Kurnus! we proceed
By reasonable rules, and choose a breed
For profit and increase, at any price ;
Of a sound stock, without defect or vice.
But, in the daily matches that we make,
The price is everything ; for money’s sake
Men marry ;, women are in marriage given:
The churl or ruffian that in wealth has thriven
May match his offspring with the proudest race:
Thus everything is mix’d, noble and base !
If then in outward manner, form, and mind,
You find us a degraded, motley kind,
Wonder no more, my friend! the cause is plain,
And to lament the consequence is vain.