To an immoderate astonishment.

'T is decent horror, regulated wrath,

Befit our dispensation: have we back

The old Pagan license? Shall a Vulcan clap

His net o' the sudden and expose the pair

To the unquenchable universal mirth?

A feat, antiquity saw scandal in

So clearly, that the nauseous tale thereof—

Demodocus his nugatory song—

Hath ever been concluded modern stuff