There’s your kind relations!
I speak from experience, and you’ll find,
Though often they invite you,
When poverty comes close behind,
How quick then they’ll slight you.
For it’s—“Clear the way—there’s a knock at the door—
Say we’re gone out for a ride, John—
I know who it is—it’s that hungry bore;
Don’t open the door too wide, John.”
My goods were one day seized for rent—