He made the story longer than your arm;[4])
Pious Æneas no more pleasure knew
Than did our Knight—who could he pious too—
In telling his exploits, and martial brawls:
But pious Thomas had no Dido near him—
No Queen—King, Lord, nor Commoner to hear him—
So he was force’d to tell them to the walls:
And to his Castle walls, in solemn guise,
The knight, full often, did soliloquize:—
For “Walls have ears,” Sir Thomas had been told;