A Century of Parody and Imitation

by Unknown

This keeps, and that decays, when duly soak'd in brine.

XXI.

Now all is hushed, and, with a look profound,

The Dominie lays ope the learned page

(So be it called); although he doth expound

Without a book, both Greek and Latin sage;

Now telleth he of Rome's rude infant age,

How Romulus was bred in savage wood,

By wet-nurse wolf, devoid of wolfish rage;

And laid foundation-stone of walls of mud,