Through dark and dirty lanes be dodging,

Unless t’avoid such dismal lurkings,

You put a powerful paw on Perkins.

Behold what ought to raise your spleen high,

Perkins supported by Aldini![55]

It must have been most sad, foul weather,

From Italy to blow him hither.

My wrath, indeed, is now so keen, I

Ev’n wish, for sake of that Aldini,

This ink were poison for the wizard,