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