And childless died, amid his goods and gain,
In far Barbadoes on the western main.
His kinsman heard, and wish’d the wealth to share,
But had no mind to be transported there:
“His Wife could sail—her courage who could doubt?— 90
And she was not tormented with the gout.”
She liked it not; but for his children’s sake,
And for their father’s, would the duty take.
Storms she encounter’d, ere she reach’d the shore,
And other storms when these were heard no more—