I subsequently composed an interlude called 'Pleasure and Care,' and printed it; and after that I made an interlude called the 'Three Powerful Ones of the World: Poverty, Love, and Death.'" The poet's daughters were not successful in the tavern speculation at Llandeilo, and followed their father into North Wales.

The second he apprenticed to a milliner, the other two lived with him till the day of his death.

He settled at Denbigh in a small house which he was enabled to furnish by means of two or three small sums which he recovered for work done a long time before.

Shortly after his return, his father died, and the lawyer seized the little property "for the old curse," and turned Tom's mother out.
After his return from the South Tom went about for some time playing interludes, and then turned his hand to many things.

He learnt the trade of stonemason, took jobs, and kept workmen.