When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough;
I’ve done my duty, and I’ve done no more.

The speaker asserts an ethic of duty performed for its own sake rather than for applause or repayment. To be “not thanked at all” yet “thanked enough” frames gratitude as unnecessary to the moral value of the act: the internal standard of having done one’s duty is sufficient. The second line—“I’ve done my duty, and I’ve done no more”—also carries a note of humility and restraint, rejecting self-congratulation and implying that duty is a baseline obligation, not a claim to special merit. In Fielding’s moral universe, such a stance can be read as a corrective to vanity and social bargaining, emphasizing integrity over reputation.