And reckon a groat every guilder disbursed.

What marvel if wags, while the skinker fast brimmed

Their glass with rare tipple's enticement, should gloat

—Befooled and beflustered—through optics drink-dimmed—

On this draught and that, till each found in his throat

Our Rhenish smack rightly as Raphal? For, note—

They fancied—their fuddling deceived them so grossly—

That liquor sprang out of the table itself

Through gimlet-holes drilled there,—nor noticed how closely