The man has half the evils you have named:

He is not poor, indeed, nor is he free

From all the gloom and care of poverty.”—

“But is he married?”—“Hush! the bell, my friend;

That business done, we will to this attend;

And, o’er our wine engaged, and at our ease,

We may discourse of Belwood’s miseries;

Not that his sufferings please me—No, indeed;

But I from such am happy to be freed.”

Their speech, of course, to this misfortune led 50