Insure their lives, and if they die we’ll make
Full satisfaction, or be bound to break.”
Of an office for marine assurance:—
“In vain are all insurances, for still
The raging wind must answer heaven or hell;
To what wise purpose must we then insure?
Since some must lose whate’er the seas devour.”
The life and fire-companies were also epigrammatised with as much point as the epigrammatist could confer. Thus, on the former he wrote:—
“Come all ye generous husbands with your wives,
Insure round sums on your precarious lives,