“In vain are all insurances, for still
The raging wind must answer heaven or hell;
To what wise purpose must we then insure?
Since some must lose whate’er the seas devour.”
The life and fire-companies were also epigrammatised with as much point
as the epigrammatist could confer. Thus, on the former he wrote:--
“Come all ye generous husbands with your wives,
Insure round sums on your precarious lives,
That, to your comfort, when you’re dead and rotten,
Your widows may be rich when you’re forgotten.”