I'd christen it "Sweets for the Sweet,"
Or "The Lyrics and Lays of a Lover;
And Simmonds's Poems Complete,
Should be printed in gold on the cover.
I have long'd for the pleasures that gold
Can procure—and I freely confess it:
(For avarice grows, we are told,
As the ipsa pecunia crescit.)
If I had but a fortune—oh, then
I could finish my course pretty gaily,