I asked the doctors after his disease—
He died of the slow fever called the tertian,
And left his widow to her own aversion.
XXXV.
Yet José was an honourable man,
That I must say, who knew him very well;
Therefore his frailties I'll no further scan,
Indeed there were not many more to tell:
And if his passions now and then outran
Discretion, and were not so peaceable