Again he reads—but he had read enough;
What followed put his virtue to a proof.
[How’s] this? to David Wright two thousand pounds! }
A monstrous sum! beyond all reason!—zounds! }
This is your friendship running out of bounds! }
“Then here are cousins Susan, Robert, Joe— }
Five hundred each. Do they deserve it? No! }
Claim they have none—I wonder if they know }
What the good man intended to bestow! 80}
This might be paid—but Wright’s enormous sum