VAIN the concern which you express, That uncalled Alard will possess Your house and coach, both day and night, And that Macbeth was haunted less By Banquo's restless sprite. With fifteen thousand pounds a year, Do you complain, you cannot bear An ill, you may so soon retrieve? Good Alard, faith, is modester By much, than you believe. Lend him but fifty louis-d'or, And you shall never see him more: Take the advice, probatum est. Why do the gods indulge our store, But to secure our rest? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A VISION OF CONNAUGHT IN THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY by JAMES CLARENCE MANGAN THE FALL OF RICHMOND [APRIL, 1865] by HERMAN MELVILLE HUGH SELWYN MAUBERLEY: 4 by EZRA POUND FROST-WORK by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH POOR LIL' BRACK SHEEP by ETHEL M. C. BRAZELTON |