By his kind care to give me happiness;
Or might his lady and her daughters bring 160
To raise my spirits, to converse, and sing.
’Twas not the benefit alone I view’d,
But thought what horrid things I might exclude.
“Some party man might here have sat him down,
Some country champion, railing at the crown;
Or some true courtier, both prepared to prove,
Who loved not them, could not their country love:
If we have value for our health and ease,