The nimble waiters to that sound from far

Sprang to the call, then hasteri’d to the bar,

Where a glad priestess of the temple sway’d,

The most obedient, and the most obey’d;

Rosy and round, adorn’d in crimson vest,

And flaming ribands at her ample breast:

She, skill’d like Circe, tried her guests to move,

With looks of welcome and with words of love;

And such her potent charms, that men unwise

Were soon transform’d and fitted for the sties.