What is the simple standing of a shot,
To listening long, and interrupting not?
Though this was not the method of old Rome,
When Tully fulmined o'er each vocal dome,
Demosthenes has sanctioned the transaction,500
In saying eloquence meant "Action, action!"
XII.
But where's the monarch?[327] hath he dined? or yet
Groans beneath indigestion's heavy debt?
Have revolutionary patés risen,