And anxious care that follow’d his employ.

Sullen and patient he at once appear’d,

As one who murmur’d, yet as one who fear’d;

Th’attire was coarse that clothed his sinewy frame,

Rude his address, and Poverty his name.

In that same plain a nymph, of curious taste,

A cottage (plann’d, with all her skill) had placed;

Strange the materials, and for what design’d

The various parts, no simple man might find;

What seem’d the door, each entering guest withstood,