Was pleased the lad he loved to recommend;
Who read your Uncle’s mind, and, pleased to read,
Placed him where talents will in time succeed.
“I will not tease you with details of trade,
But say he there a decent fortune made— 660
Not such as gave him, if return’d, to buy
A duke’s estate, or principality,
But a fair fortune; years of peace he knew,
That were so happy, and that seem’d so few.
“Then came a cloud; for who on earth has seen