And carry it off per saltum, jauntily,

Propria quae maribus, gentleman’s property now

(Agreeably to the law explain’d above),

In proprium usum, for his private ends,

The boy he chuck’d a brown i’ the air, and bit

I’ the face the shilling; heaved a thumping stone

At a lean hen that ran cluck clucking by

(And hit her, dead as nail i’ post o’ door),

Then abiit—what’s the Ciceronian phrase?—

Excessit, evasit, erupit—off slogs boy;