I may put claim in for my pittance, Dear!

CXVII

"La Roque, Voltaire, my lovers? Then disguise

Has served its turn, grows idle; let it drop!

I shall to Paris, flaunt there in men's eyes

My proper manly garb and mount a-top

The pedestal that waits me, take the prize

Awarded Hercules. He threw a sop

To Cerberus who let him pass, you know,

Then, following, licked his heels: exactly so!