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