Where not a being saw the tears he shed:
But more was yet required, for guests were come,
Who could not dine if he disgraced the room.
It shock’d his spirit to be esteem’d unfit
With an own brother and his wife to sit;
He grew rebellious - at the vestry spoke
For weekly aid - they heard it as a joke:
“So kind a brother, and so wealthy - you
Apply to us? - No! this will never do:
Good neighbour Fletcher,” said the Overseer,