A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year.
Girls like to be played with and rumpled a little too sometimes.
Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace the day's disasters in his morning face.
But winter lingering chills the lap of May.
People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.
The volumes of antiquity, like medals, may very well serve to amuse the curious, but the works of the moderns, like the current coin of a kingdom, are much better for immediate use.