The crowd that to his presence press’d:

“O that the dead could yet perceive!

How would the prudent father grieve,

That all th’ Athenians had not skill

Enough to understand his will!”

Then at their joint request he solved

That error, which had all involved.

“The gardens, house, and wine vaults too,

Give to the spinster as her due;

The clothes, the jewels, and such ware,