A mortgage on ev'ry acre of ground
And robb'd him of sixty thousand pound—
Without being put in the pillory?
Has any one read—does any one know—
If he marries a wife who's not quite comme il,
And a handsome estate should inherit,—
What a suit of chancery can effect,
To strip him, even of self-respect,
Hold him up to scorn contempt; and neglect,
And ruin him, body and spirit?