All sorts of beasts with horns—

Rams, bulls, goats, stags, and unicorns.

Such brutes all promptly fled.

A hare, the shadow of his ears perceiving,

Could hardly help believing

That some vile spy for horns would take them,

And food for accusation make them.

Adieu, said he, my neighbor cricket;

I take my foreign ticket.

My ears, should I stay here,