A Foreign Count—who came incog.,

Not under a cloud, but under a fog,

In a Calais packet's fore-cabin,

To charm some lady British-born,

With his eyes as black as the fruit of the thorn,

And his hooky nose, and his beard half-shorn,

Like a half-converted Rabbin.

CCX.

And because the Sex confess a charm

In the man who has slash'd a head or arm