The girl could swallow at a draught, nor breathe,

A choinix of unmixed Mendesian wine;

And having lost the match will—dine on herbs!

Three stories late aflame, at once extinct,

Outblazed by just 'Euripides is dead'!

"I met the concourse from the Theatre,

The audience flocking homeward: victory

Again awarded Aristophanes

Precisely for his old play chopped and changed,

'The Female Celebrators of the Feast'—