Ran down so fast my very feet were wet.

“Oh, had I but a temper worth the name,

Like yours, Bolanus!” inly I exclaim,

While he keeps running on at a hand-trot

About the town, the streets, I know not what.

Finding I made no answer, “Ah, I see

You’re at a strait to rid yourself of me;

But ’tis no use; I’m a tenacious friend,

And mean to hold you till your journey’s end.”

“No need to take you such a round; I go