As men, by custom, from some cliff’s vast height,
Look pleased, and make their danger their delight.
“Come, let us on!—see there a Flemish view,
A Country Fair, and all as Nature true.
See there the merry creatures, great and small,
Engaged in drinking, gaming, dancing all,
Fiddling or fighting—all in drunken joy!”— 420
“But is this Nature?” said the wondering Boy.
“Be sure it is! and those Banditti there— }
Observe the faces, forms, the eyes, the air; }