And scanty cap, and his poor ears

With wooden earrings decorated,

And wearing round his ribs a newly-bought

Raw ox-hide, fitter for a case

For an old-fashion'd shield, this wretch

Artemon, who long has lived

With bakers' women, and the lowest of the low,

Now having found a new style of life,

Often thrusts his neck into the yoke,

Or beneath the spear doth crouch;