Solid Worth in a Wife.
When Loveless married Lady Jenny,
Whose beauty was the ready penny;
I chose her, said he, like old plate,
Not for the fashion, but the weight.
Epitaph on a Miser.
Reader, beware immoderate love of pelf:
Here lies the worst of thieves, who robbed himself.
On a crooked Woman.
Nature in pity has denied you shape,