A scolding wife, a sullen son, a bill
To pay, unpaid, protested, or discounted
At a per-centage; a child cross, dog ill,
A favourite horse fallen lame just as he's mounted,
A bad old woman making a worse will,[338]Which leaves you minus of the cash you counted[GN]As certain;—these are paltry things, and yet
I've rarely seen the man they did not fret.