What study, and mayhap some mother-wit,

Can do toward making Master fop and Fisc

Old bachelor Bottinius bite his thumb.

Now, how good God is! How falls plumb to point

This murder, gives me Guido to defend

Now, of all days i' the year, just when the boy

Verges on Virgil, reaches the right age

For some such illustration from his sire,

Stimulus to himself! One might wait years

And never find the chance which now finds me!