And are a strong, although a secret claim:

To me, alas! the want and worth are known;

Why then, in fact, ’tis but to take my own.”

Thought after thought pour’d in, a tempting train: -

“Suppose it done, - who is it could complain?

How could the poor? for they such trifles share,

As add no comfort, as suppress no care;

But many a pittance makes a worthy heap, -

What says the law? that silence puts to sleep: -

Nought then forbids, the danger could we shun,