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, }