Young, slender, and packed easily, he lay,

No doubt, in little compass, round or square;

But pity him I neither must nor may

His suffocation by that pretty pair;

'T were better, sure, to die so, than be shut

With maudlin Clarence in his Malmsey butt.[AG]

CLXVII.

And, secondly, I pity not, because

He had no business to commit a sin,

Forbid by heavenly, fined by human laws;—