"You cheat: your six-legged sheep, I recollect, began

Both life and trade, last year, trimmed properly and clipt,

As the Twin-headed Babe, and Human Nondescript!"

What does he care? You paid his price, may pass your jest.

So values he repute, good fame, and all the rest!

XII

But try another tack; say: "I indulge caprice,

Who am Don and Duke, and Knight, beside, o' the Golden Fleece,

And, never mind how rich. Abandon this career!

Have hearth and home, nor let your womankind appear