Proves her as rich as she is fair.
“Would she were mine, and I to day
Had the old man’s cash my debts to pay.
“No creditors with a long account
No tradesmen wanting ‘that little amount.’
“But all my scores paid up when due
By a father-in-law as rich as a Jew.”
But he thought of her brother not worth a straw
And her mother, that would be his, in law.
So undecided he walked along