Vivitur ex rapto.

Ovid.

[24]

Thence from cups to civil broils.

Milton.

[25] The Vicar’s live stock is said to be of the starveling family, like the nags in the Epigram:

“Thy nags (the leanest things alive)

So very hard thou lov’st to drive;

I heard thy anxious coachman say,

It cost thee more in whips than hay.”