The robber! he follows me into my hole!”
Wesley’s rendering of the dénouement is a thoroughly good specimen of the mock-heroic style which runs through the original:
The Muses knowing all things list not show
The Wailings for the Dead and Funeral Rites,
To blameless Æthiopians must they go
To feast with Jove for twelve succeeding nights.
Therefore abrupt thus end they. Let suffice
The gods’ august assembly to relate,
Heroic Frogs and Demigods of Mice,
Troxartes’ vengeance and Pelides’ fate.