Classic Poem

That war should bankrupts make of merchants is no wonder:
But what, alas! was it that brought the doctor under?
Was 't warfare with his wife? or did he get no patients?
Or suffered he great loss from some who do not pay rents?
The one outside the house freely expends the treasure,
The other wastes, within, the goods beyond all measure.
Behold the man and wife, by squandering so flagrent,
Are rotten in the box and mothy in the raiment.