And what he vends in ample letters told,

The words ‘Repository,’ ‘Warehouse,’ all

He uses to enlarge concerns so small:

He to his goods assigns some beauty’s name,

Then in her reign, and hopes they’ll share her fame,

And talks of credit, commerce, traffic, trade,

As one important by their profit made;

But who can paint the vacancy, the gloom,

And spare dimensions of one backward room?

Wherein he dines, if so ’tis fit to speak