Or as he tasted had first smack of scourge ✿ And looked in marvel for a second bout.
And saith another on the same theme:—
As one of you who mounted mule, ✿ A sight for men to ridicule:
Is’t not a farce? Who feels surprise ✿ An start and bolt with him the mule?
And another on a similar subject:—
Oft hunchback addeth to his bunchy back ✿ Faults which gar folk upon his front look black:
Like branch distort and dried by length of days ✿ With citrons hanging from it loose and slack.
With this the broker hurried up to her and, carrying her to another merchant, said to her, “Wilt thou be sold to this one?” She looked at him and said, “In very sooth this man is blue-eyed[[466]]; how wilt thou sell me to him?” Quoth one of the poets:—
His eyelids sore and bleared ✿ Weakness of frame denote:
Arise, ye folk and see ✿ Within his eyes the mote!