And trembling cries, “How cold it is!”

Now lisps Sir Fopling, tender weed,

All shivering like a shaken reed,

“How sharp the wind attacks my back!

John, put some list across that crack;

Go, sandbag all the sashes round,

And see there’s not an air-hole found.”

Indulgence pale

Tells this sad tale

Till he in furs enfolded is;