The cloth of frieze is not a cloth of gold;
But neither is it pyebald, pieced, and poor;
’Tis a good useful coat, and nothing more.
Such is the Friendship of the world approved,
And here the Friends so loving and so loved.—
Danvers and Rayner, equals, who had made
Each decent fortune, both were yet in trade; 50
While sons and daughters, with a youthful zeal,
Seem’d the hereditary love to feel;
And ev’n their wives, though either might pretend