There neither was a ceiling, nor a sheet,

Save that the ingenious door did, as you come,

Turn in, and show to wainscot half the room;

Yet of his state no man could have complained,

There being no bed where he entertained;

And though within this cell so narrow pent,

He'd stanzas for a whole apartement.

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————Nothing now, dinner staid,

But till he had himself a body made;