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.