They’ll fit no man alive.
On an old Miser.
Here lies father Sparges,
Who died to save charges.
On a Grave-stone in Cirencester Church-Yard.
God takes the good, too good on earth to stay,
And leaves the bad, too bad to take away.
Dean Swift being sent for by the Lord Carteret, then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and being made to wait in the Council Chamber alone, wrote with a Diamond on the Window—
My very good lord, ’tis a very hard task
For a man to wait here who has nothing to ask.