Lives half so well as a holy friar?

John O’Keefe.

THE COUNTRY SQUIRE

A COUNTRY squire, of greater wealth than wit

(For fools are often bless’d with fortune’s smile),

Had built a splendid house, and furnish’d it

In splendid style.

“One thing is wanted,” said a friend; “for, though

The rooms are fine, the furniture profuse,