And pain, and ten thousand things more—

O, I wish it were my turn to-morrow!

But, perchance, in that sleep we may dream,

For we dream in our beds very often—

Now, however capricious ’t may seem,

I’ve no notion of dreams in a coffin.

Ri-tol-de-rol, etc.

’Tis the doubt of our ending all snugly,

That makes us with life thus dispute,

For who’d bear with a wife old and ugly,