And held out the account. "Two hundred round,

And gallant payment over." The Miser's face

Assumed the cast of death's worst lineaments.

His skinny jaws fell down upon his breast;

He tried to speak, but his dried tongue refused

Its utterance, and cluck'd upon the gum.

His heart-pipes whistled with a crannell'd sound;

His knell-knees plaited, and his every bone

Seem'd out of joint. He raved—he cursed—he wept—

But payment he refused. I have my bond,