Whose Lives accorded well with this their favourite Place.
Sir Edward Tracy was a valiant Man,
Who served in Flanders under Good Queen Anne;
Was wounded there, and in his pleasant seat
Found a fair Dame that made Retirement sweet.
There he enjoy’d a life of social Ease,
And died before its vital Spirits freeze.
He left a pensive, mild, domestic heir, 70
Pleas’d to improve his Mansion and repair;
The small Improvements in his farms to make,