How Lovely The Elder Brother'S Life All Laced In The Other'S, L've-Laced! What Once I Well Witnessed; So Fortune Fell. When Shrovetide, Two Years Gone, Our Boys' Plays Brought On Part Was Picked For John, Young J'Hn: Then Fear, Then Joy Ran Revel In The Elder Boy. Their Night Was Come Now; All Our Company Thronged The Hall; Henry, By The Wall, Beckoned Me Beside Him: I Came Where Called, And Eyed Him By Meanwhiles; Making M' Play Turn Most On Tender Byplay. For, Wrung All On Love'S Rack, My Lad, And Lost In Jack, Smiled, Blushed, And Bit His Lip; Or Drove, With A Diver'S Dip, Clutched Hands Down Through Clasped Knees - Truth'S Tokens Tricks Like These, Old Telltales, With What Stress He Hung On The Imp'S Success. Now The Other Was Br'Ss-B'Ld: H' Had No Work To Hold His Heart Up At The Strain; Nay, Roguish Ran The Vein. Two Tedious Acts Were Past; Jack'S Call And Cue At Last; When Henry, Heart-Forsook, Dropped Eyes And Dared Not Look. Eh, How 'll R'Ng! Young Dog, He Did Give Tongue! But Harry - In His Hands He Has Flung His Tear-Tricked Cheeks Of Flame For Fond Love And For Shame. Ah Nature, Framed In Fault, There 'S Comfort Then, There 'S Salt; Nature, Bad, Base, And Blind, Dearly Thou Canst Be Kind; There Dearly Th'N, De'Rly, I'll Cry Thou Canst Be Kind.