Sure a coarse mind to humble and displease.

O! had she never known a fault beside,

How vain their spite, how impotent their pride!

Three darling girls the happy couple bless’d,

Who now the sweetest lot of life possess’d;

For what can more a grateful spirit move

Than health, with competence, and peace, with love? 520

Ellis would sometimes, thriving man! retire

To the town inn, and quit the parlour fire;

But he was ever kind where’er he went, }