They would be solvent, and deplore a debt;

All means they use, to all expedients run,

And are by slow, sad steps, at last undone:

Justly, perhaps, you blame their want of skill,

But mourn their feelings and absolve their will.

There is a Debtor, who his trifling all

Spreads in a shop; it would not fill a stall:

There at one window his temptation lays,

And in new modes disposes and displays:

Above the door you shall his name behold,