Took pen to scribble down

The marv’lous things he might espy,

Or aught that he might learn.

(This wisdom’d man, most verily,

Had mused o’er his return.) * * *

’Tis said—that sixteen weeks, or more,

The plans had been devised

For Captain[36] Joseph’s “foreign tour,”

And sixteen times revised—

Regarding his habiliment,