Ends in a rusty casque and dubious bone,[554]

Half-solved into these sodas or magnesias,

Which form that bitter draught, the human species.

LXXIV.

The effect on Juan was of course sublime:

He breathed a thousand Cressys, as he saw

That casque, which never stooped except to Time.

Even the bold Churchman's tomb excited awe,

Who died in the then great attempt to climb

O'er Kings, who now at least must talk of Law