Is all that business from its station fled?
Why, Barnaby! thy very shop is dead! 100
Now, what the cause my Friend will soon relate—
And what the fall from that predicted fate.
F. A common cause: it seems his lawful gains
Came slowly forth, and came with care and pains.
These he, indeed, was willing to bestow;
But still his progress to his point was slow,
And might be quicken’d, “could he cheat the eyes }