Pockets full, and spirits high—
What are acres? what are houses?
Only dirt or wet or dry.
Should the guardian friend or mother
Tell the woes of wilful waste;
Scorn their counsel, scorn their pother—
You can hang or drown at last.'"
These verses were addressed to Thrale's nephew, Sir John Lade, in August, 1780. They bear a strong resemblance to some of Burns' in his "Beggar's Sonata," written in 1785:—
"What is title, what is treasure,
What is reputation's care;