Ease’d of a great man’s chaise, and coming back,

From Bladud’s springs, upon the western road;

No bloated Noble’s luggage at his rump,

Whose doom’s, that dread of pick-pockets, the pump,

He canters home, from Bath, without his load.

Sir Thomas being scrupulous, and queasy,

Couldn’t, in all this interval, be easy.

He went to bed;—and, there, began to burn;

Nine times he turn’d, in wondrous perturbation;—

He woke her Ladyship, at every turn,