In mirth and jollity his whole estate.

Seeing him in a wretched trim; his looks

He was in a most wretched trim; his looks

Lean, sick, and dirty; and his clothes all rags.

“How now!” cried I, “what means this figure, friend?

Alas! says he, my patrimony’s gone.

—Ah, how am I reduc’d! my old acquaintance

And friends all shun me.”—Hearing this, how cheap

I held him in comparison with me!

“Why, how now? wretch, said I, most idle wretch!