Then die, and leave us to our griefs a prey!”
Sir Owen Dale his fortieth year had seen,
With temper placid, and with mind serene;
Rich, early married to an easy wife,
They led in comfort a domestic life. 70
He took of his affairs a prudent care,
And was by early habit led to spare;
Not as a miser, but in pure good taste,
That scorn’d the idle wantonness of waste.
In fact, the lessons he from prudence took