The signed agreement in his hand:

But when at length the legal soul

Resumed its customary force,

‘The Law,’ he said, ‘we ca’n’t control:

Pay, or the Law must take its course!’

Said Paul, ‘How bitterly I rue

That fatal morning when I called!

Consider, Peter, what you do!

You won’t be richer when you’re bald!

Think you, by rending curls away,