Chapter 13 13

They told me, by the sentence of the law,

They had commission to seize all thy fortune.

Here stood a ruffian with a horrid face,

Lording it o'er a pile of massy plate,

Tumbled into a heap for public sale;

There was another, making villainous jests

At thy undoing; he had ta'en possession

Of all thy ancient most domestic ornament