But profit by the truths I shall disclose.
The Newcome family, you may believe,
Straitways descended from good Madam Eve;
Adam, a Newcome, when in Paradise,
The wily serpent did Dame Eve entice
To touch forbidden fruit; and to his shame,
Poor Adam Newcome slily did the same:
For this, from Paradise they soon were hurl’d,
And thus Cain Newcome came into the World.
’Twould be an endless job were I to trace