To pick up, steady her on legs again,

My office turns a pleasantry indeed!

Not that the burly boaster did one jot

O' the little was to do—young Spreti's work!

But for him,—manikin and dandiprat,

Mere candle-end and inch of cleverness

Stuck on Arcangeli's save-all,—but for him

The spruce young Spreti, what is bad were worse!

"I looked that Rome should have the natural gird

At advocate with case that proves itself;