I.

Poor Wearing to the Shades is gone,
Like Orpheus , by mishap:
Not gone to seek his Wife , but gone,
To leave her in — a Scrape .

II.

We find the Sisters three are deaf ,
Since Wearing now is dead;
For had the Fates but heard his Strings ,
They wou'd have spar'd his Thread .

III.

Death heard his Notes, and heard well-pleas'd,
So drew his fatal Lance;
Death will keep Holyday; and He
Must play to Holben's Dance .