To Quilca A Country-House in no very good Repair

Let me thy Properties explain,  A rotten Cabin, dropping Rain;  Chimnies with Scorn rejecting Smoak;  Stools,

Tables,

Chairs, and Bed-steds broke:  Here Elements have lost their Vses,  Air ripens not, nor Earth produces:  In vain we make poor Sheelah toil,  Fire will not roast, nor Water boil.  Thro' all the Vallies,

Hills, and Plains,

The Goddess Want in Triumph reigns;

And her chief Officers of State,

Sloth,

Dirt, and Theft around her wait.

Form: couplets Composition Date:1725