Another boy with equal ease was found,
The money granted, and the victim bound;
And what his fate? - One night it chanced he fell
From the boat’s mast and perish’d in her well,
Where fish were living kept, and where the boy
(So reason’d men) could not himself destroy: -
“Yes! so it was” said Peter, “in his play,
(For he was idle both by night and day,)
He climb’d the main-mast and then fell below;” -
Then show’d his corpse, and pointed to the blow.