Dwelt a right regular, and staid, young man;—
Much did he early hours and quiet love;
And was entitle’d Mr. Isaac Shove.
An Orphan he;—yet rich in expectations,
(Which nobody seem’d likely to supplant,)
From, that prodigious bore of all relations,
A fusty, canting, stiff-rump’d Maiden Aunt:
The wealthy Miss Lucretia Cloghorty,—
Who had brought Isaac up, and own’d to forty.
Shove on this maiden’s Will relied securely;