And wears a blue spencer, so sparkish and glossy,—

Not satisfied thus to look handsome and saucy,

To face [p. 6.]

The Empress receiv’d them with affable grace,

Though ’twas notic’d, she coldly accoſted the Gull:

[7] ]The helmet put on of the great Cassowary,

So fierce!—you’d have back’d him to fight with a Fairy,

The Booby, by nature a blockhead confest,

In the top-knot and train of the Peacock was drest;