Saw the dexterity with which they whip
The horse with Tackle safely in the Ship.
So firmly managed, yet with so much care,
Rais’d from the ground, suspended in the air,
The astonish’d Animal without a check
Is gently lower’d till he gains the Deck.
John found the Knight, whose head now chiefly run
On the sad way the Nation’s work was done;
When having Dined, and o’er the social Glass,
He said—‘Dear Boy, strange things may come to pass,