Silks, laces, ear-rings, pearl-necklace, gold watch, in short, all the trinkets and articles of dress were lavishly heap'd upon me

Keep your dignity here even though other folk are expending any amount of piranhic energy implanting their ungloved lunch hooks into the property left by another.

Let later age that noble vse enuie, Vile rancour to auoid, and cruell surquedrie

...with a nudge of the elbow, and an inside-out squint of his eyes...