To which the Duke replied, with steady phiz,—

“Them as took pains to push that Friar from his,

At such a time o’night, was cursed fools.”

“Ah!” sigh’d Sir Thomas, “while I wander here,

By fortune stamp’d a Homicide, alas!”

(And, as he spoke, a penitential tear

Mingled with Heaven’s dew-drops, on the grass;)—

“Will no one from my eyes yon Spectre pull?”

“Sir Thomas,” said the Duke of Limbs, “I wool.”

He would have thrown the garbage in the moat,