At least nine tenths of what we call so:—God

May have another name for half we scan

As human beings, or his ways are odd.

But to our subject: a brave Tartar Khan—

Or "Sultan," as the author (to whose nod

In prose I bend my humble verse) doth call

This chieftain—somehow would not yield at all:

CV.

But flanked by five brave sons (such is polygamy,

That she spawns warriors by the score, where none