His tribute to the nose so like invasion,—

You would have sworn, to smell him, ’twas no rat,

But a dead, putrified, old civet-cat.

He reach’d the spot, anticipating blisses,

Soft murmurs, melting sighs, and burning kisses,

Trances of joy, and mingling of the souls;

When, whack! Sir Thomas hit him on the joles.

Now, on his head it came, now on his face,

His neck, and shoulders, arms, legs, breast, and back;

In short, on almost every place