Carry these criminals to the prison-house,

For first thing! I begin my search meanwhile

After the stolen effects, gold, jewels, plate,

Money and clothes, they robbed me of and fled,

With no few amorous pieces, verse and prose,

I have much reason to expect to find."

When I saw that—no more than the first mad speech,

Made out the speaker mad and a laughing-stock,

So neither did this next device explode

One listener's indignation,—that a scribe