XVIII + 

How was it these same ledger-men could spy + 

Fair Isabella in her downy nest? + 

How could they find out in Lorenzo’s eye + 

A straying from his toil? Hot Egypt’s pest + 

Into their vision covetous and sly! + 

How could these money-bags see east and west?⁠— + 

Yet so they did⁠—and every dealer fair + 

Must see behind, as doth the hunted hare. + 