Had us fast Friend of slight Acquaintance made—
‘Fletcher, there are, not distant from the Place
Which you will visit, Remnants of our Race.
I left an elder Brother, only one
Of all our Kin, and he an only Son.
Ben had small sense, but yet had, [as] they tell—
For I have made Enquiry—acted well; 30
Married a Dame with Money, and began,
As Burgess told, to be a noted Man.
But the Wife died, who was his Stay and Prop;