Take towns by storm: no causes can I guess,
Except cold weather and commiseration;[IS]
But all the ladies, save some twenty score,
Were almost as much virgins as before.
CXXX.
Some odd mistakes, too, happened in the dark,
Which showed a want of lanterns, or of taste—
Indeed the smoke was such they scarce could mark
Their friends from foes,—besides such things from haste
Occur, though rarely, when there is a spark