“Nay then,” the spectre stern rejoin’d,

“These are unjustifi’ble yearnings;

If you are lame, and deaf, and blind,

You’ve had your three sufficient warnings.

So come along, no more we’ll part,

He said, and touch’d him with his dart;

And now old Dobson, turning pale,

Yields to his fate—so ends my tale.”

Fable XII.
The Caterpillar and Butterfly.