And kindly add, - “Heaven grant, I lose no more!”
Yet, while he spake, a sly and pleasant glance
Appear’d at variance with his complaisance:
For, as he told their fate and varying worth,
He archly look’d, - “I yet may bear thee forth.”
“When first” - (he so began) - “my trade I plied,
Good master
Addle
was the parish-guide;
His clerk and sexton, I beheld with fear,