It matters not how fair, is straitly banned.

I need not say I’ve left a place for such

As are unearthed in the next hundred years.

Now do you follow?

(To Gyges.) That one fitly suits

Some massive giant-skull such as your sculptors

Are wont to give my forebear for a head-piece,

When in his lion-skin, with bulky club,

Towering above a streamlet’s mossy rim,

You make him useful as a children’s bogy.