old man

On glassy water drove his cheek in lines ; 115

A little dry old man, without a star,

Not like a king : three days he feasted us,

Not he: his honest fame should at least by me be maintained:

But that old man, now lord of the broad estate and the Hall,

Dropt off gorged from a scheme that had left us flaccid and drain'd.

or exhibited; King Lear's with Cordelia dead in his arms, most resembles,

but by no means equals it; the grief, in this case, only pushes an old man

into the grave, already half buried with age and misfortunes; in the other,

A Virgin and two doves were all Thy train,

With one old man for state,

When Thou didst enter first Thy Father’s gate.

He married soon and came to mother's hearth,

And brought his bride. I heard the old man say:

"A man should have his own place when he marries,

Whose betrayal of me I had concealed

By marrying the old man.

Then I took morphine and sat down to read.

Ah my deare Sonne (quoth he) how should, alas,

Silly old man, that lives in hidden cell,

Bidding his beades all day for his trespas,

With faire discourse the evening so they pas:

For that old man of pleasing wordes had store,

And well could file his tongue as smooth as glas,