And women jumbled to a laughing-stock

Which Hellas shall hold sides at lest she split!

Hellas, on these, shall have her word to say!'

"She has it and she says it—there 's the curse!—

She finds he makes the shag-rag hero-race,

The noble slaves, wise women, move as much

Pity and terror as true tragic types:

Applauds inventiveness—the plot so new,

The turn and trick subsidiary so strange!

She relishes that homely phrase of life,