Lest if I saw the fish they ask so much for,
I should at once grow marble. —J. A. St. John.
The same.
I must confess that hitherto I deem'd
The Gorgons a mere fable, but just now
I stepp'd into the fish-market, and there
I saw, at once, the dread reality;
And I was petrified, indeed, so much,
That, to converse with them, I turn'd my back
For fear of being turn'd to stone; they ask'd