By meeting terrors, and the old appear’d,
Their fears upbraiding, like the young who fear’d.
Among them all some sad discourse at night
Was sure to breed a terrified delight:
Some luckless one of the attentive dames
Had figures seen like those within the frames,
Figures of lords who once the land posses’d,
And who could never in their coffins rest;
Unhappy spirits! who could not abide 70}
The loss of all their consequence and pride; }