With no one to mind him, poor sensible elf!

No,—no one to mind him, poor sensible elf!

Then Reason grew jealous of Folly’s gay cap;

Had he that on, he her heart might entrap—

“There it is,”

Quoth Folly, “old quiz!”

(Folly was always good-natured, ’tis said.)

“Under the sun

There’s no such fun,

As Reason with my cap and bells on his head,