The plain English of which is,

That, in spite of their riches,

'Twas a pair and a half of his father's old breeches.

He has shouldered two legs—for the tails split another;

While his back took a seat which his neck too will cover.

Now they're all introduced but a queer little man,

With broad nose, bushy hair, and complexion like tan;

Who a foreigner seems, quite a fresh importation,

An exotic transplanted from some foreign nation.

"But what has delayed them?"