But all the while, within your private dwelling,
There’s many a Paris courting of your Helen.”
BOARD OR LODGING
“Asclepiades, the miser, in his house
Espied one day, to his surprise, a mouse.
‘Tell me, dear mouse,’ he cried, ‘to what cause is it
I owe this pleasant but unlooked-for visit?’
The mouse said, smiling, ‘Fear not for your hoard;
I come, my friend, to lodge, and not to board.’”