We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

There are only do and don’t; can or can’t is just an excuse.

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money!

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.