Miser abstinet et timet uti, Hor.

Still o'er these scenes my memory wakes, And fondly broods with miser care!

The Grey-beard Winter sat alone and still, Locking his treasures in the flinty earth; And like a miser comfortless and chill, Frown'd upon pleasure and rejected mirth; But Spring came, gentle Spring, the young, the fair, And with her smiles subdued his frosty heart, So that for very joy to see her there, His soul, relenting, play'd the lover's part;

CHORUS Quid sum miser tunc dicturus?

See with what fancy pride he does pretend, His miser father's notions to amend, Huffs Plutarch, Plato, Pliny, Seneca, And bids even Cicero himself give way.

" Then the Grumpy Guy was silent as a miser hoarding pelf.

Vide miser homo, quia totum est vanitas, totum stultitia, totum dementia, quicquid facis in hoc mundo, praeter hoc solum quod propter Deum facis.

If thou hast nothing to do, Invidia vel amore miser torquebereThou shalt be haled in pieces with envy, lust, some passion or other.

Martha has got the miser spirit.

With father's death, and mother's guilty shame, With Jove's disdain at such a rival's feed: The wretch compel'd, a runegate became, And learn'd what ill, a miser-state did breed, To lye, to steal, to prie, and to accuse, Nought in himself, each other to abuse.

The coward calls himself cautious, the miser thrifty.

How does the miser time employ?

The wind was high, the window shakes, With sudden start the miser wakes; Along the silent room he stalks; Looks back, and trembles as he walks!