Basins and ewers, plates, pitchers, pots, and pans.

‘Crown all your doors with bay, triumphant bay!

Sacred to Jove, the milk-white victim slay;

For lo! where great Sejanus by the throng,

A joyful spectacle! is dragged along.

What lips! what cheeks! ha, traitor! for my part,

I never loved the fellow—in my heart.’

‘But tell me, why was he adjudged to bleed?

And who discovered, and who proved the deed?’

‘Proved!—a huge wordy letter came to-day