Or Lot's wife done in salt,—or what you will;—

My similes are gathered in a heap,

So pick and choose—perhaps you'll be content

With a carved lady on a monument.

LXIX.

And lo! a fifth appears;—and what is she?

A lady of a "certain age,"[352] which means

Certainly agéd—what her years might be

I know not, never counting past their teens;

But there she slept, not quite so fair to see,