When your teaching bears its first-fruits, Peter—wait and see!"

As the word, the deed proved; ere a brief year's passage,

Fop—that fool he made the jokes on—now he made the jokes for, gratis:

Hunks—that hoarder, long left lonely in his crass age—

Found now one appreciative deferential friend:

Powder-paint-and-patch, Hag Jezebel—recovered,

Strange to say, the power to please, got courtship till she cried Jam satis!

Fop be-flattered. Hunks be-friended, Hag be-lovered—

Nobody o'erlooked, save God—he soon attained his end.

As he lounged at ease one morning in his villa,