Yet in his walk unnumber’d insults meets
And gains ‘mid scorn the food that chokes him as he eats.
“Oh, Captain Elliot! you who know mankind,
With all the anguish of the feeling mind,
Bear to our kind relation these the woes
That e’en to you ’tis misery to disclose. 850
You can describe what I but faintly trace—
A man of learning cannot bear disgrace;
Refinement sharpens woes that wants create,
And ’tis fresh grief such grievous things to state;