Six cock-tail'd mice transport her to the ball,
And liveried lizards wait upon her call.
Alas! that partial Science should approve
The sly Rectangle's[69] too licentious love!
For three bright nymphs the wily wizard burns;—
Three bright-ey'd nymphs requite his flame by turns.
Strange force of magic skill! combined of yore
With Plato's science and Menecmus' lore.
In Afric's schools, amid those sultry sands
High on its base where Pompey's pillar stands,