He bow’d politely low, and bade them all adieu,

But lives the man by whom such deeds are done!

Yes, many such - But Swallow’s race is run;

His name is lost, - for though his sons have name,

It is not his, they all escape the shame;

Nor is there vestige now of all he had,

His means are wasted, for his heir was mad:

Still we of Swallow as a monster speak,

A hard bad man, who prey’d upon the weak.

LETTER VII.