Think you it gave HIM pain

To see his son a second Cain?

Sir Perseus paused, watchful of his companion, but Mr. Wedderburn sat very quietly; as though indeed he was not listening. Sir Perseus, however, preferred passing the time in reading rather than in further conversation; with a fervent, silent wish for Jerome Caryl, he droned on:

His wife too felt little grief

Or else she quickly found relief—

For her youngest newly dead

A merry life she led

And did her consolation take

In loving of a Hell-cat rake

A man with all the vices rife