Where blood was talked of as we would of water;
And carcasses that lay as thick as thatch
O'er silenced cities, merely served to flatter
Fair Catherine's pastime—who looked on the match
Between these nations as a main of cocks,
Wherein she liked her own to stand like rocks.
XXX.
And there in a kibitka he rolled on,
(A cursed sort of carriage without springs,
Which on rough roads leaves scarcely a whole bone,)