At that gay funeral of the people’s cash,

Her maiden daughter’s marriage; and her thoughts

Are half of pleasure, half of pain—the coin

Is being spent—ev’n leaving her! But Thou,

True daughter, whose all faithful filial eyes

Have seen the costliness of earthly thrones

Wilt neither quit thy new half-crowns, nor let

Thy nice annuity have risen in vain,

But moving through the Mother’s home, between

Thy dividends and pension, lead an easy life,