'How he stands!,' quoth the King....

'We exercise wholesome discretion

'In keeping aloof from his threshold....

'But who's he would prove so fool-hardy?

'Not the best man of Marignan, pardie!'

The sentence no sooner was uttered

Than over the rails a glove fluttered,

Fell close to the lion, and rested:

The dame 'twas, who flung it and jested

With life so, De Lorge had been wooing