And then, at rags and hunger frighten’d, flees:

Yet not too long in cold debate remain;

Till age refrain not - but if old, refrain.

By no such rule would Gaffer Kirk be tried;

First in the year he led a blooming bride,

And stood a wither’d elder at her side.

Oh! Nathan! Nathan! at thy years trepann’d,

To take a wanton harlot by the hand!

Thou, who wert used so tartly to express

Thy sense of matrimonial happiness,