To follow them thus through their Metempsychoses;
You may guess at the rest—but ’twill yield us some fun to
Observe in that corner a notable Junto,
Who had met by agreement to quizz, and to hoax,
As they came within view, the transmogrified folks;—
Though the Bishop, the Pope, and the Cardinal, duly
Loud censures pronounc’d, when their tongues grew unruly,
“And pray what were the names of this merciless Quorum,
So bitter that none stood in safety before ’em?”—
The Parrot, the Magpie, Jay, Chatterer, and Daw,