Borough boasts three lawyers. (1) Doctors are mentioned

more often.(2) One Banker appears in Crabbe's pages. His

methods and his colossal failure and the suffering it

entails are well portrayed. (3) London Clerks in a count

ing house are descibed in these lines,

boldly

They dress so swarthy and so badly look,

And talk as if they read it from a book;

The y talk the instant they have dropp'dthe pen,

Of singing women and of acting men;

Of plays and places where at night they walk
Beneath the lamps, and with the ladies talk;

While other ladies for their pleasure sing. (4)

Three typical examples of English farmers may be given in the folbowing lines. The first is of a trader (1) Note: The only other mention of an attorney is in

the Borough, Letter XV. Crabbe III. 251. (2) Note:
There is the quack Borough, Letter VII., Crabbe III.
132-3, The Newspaper, Crabbe II. 131; The Mid-wife
Leah Cousins, Crabbe II. 123; and the regular Doc-
tors, Borough Letter VII. Crabbe III. 127; Tales of
The Hall, The Maid's Story, Crabbe VI. (3) Tales of
The Hall, The Sisters, Crabbe VI. (4) Crabbe V. 247.

turned squire.

But times were changed: no mention now was made
By the old squire, or by the young of trade.
His worship now read Burn and talked with skill

About the poor-house, and the turnpike-bill.
Lord of a manor, hehad serious claims

And knew the poaching rascals by their names.
The squire invites

His friend, by sleep refreshed, to see his sights
His lands and lions, granary, barns and crops,

His dairy, piggery, pinery, apples, hops;

"My team of oxen, and my patent plough

For first they plough and bring us bread to eat,

And then we fat and kill them

there's the meat."(1

The second farmer also boasts of his stock

Now see my flock, and hear its glory;

none

Have that vast body and that slender bone;

They are the village boast, the dealers' theme, (1) Crabbe VIII. 234-5.