And reigning dukes as bad as tyrant kings;
How to two swains[206] one nymph her vows may give,
And how two damsels with one lover live!
Delicious scenes!—such scenes our bard displays,
Which, crown'd with German, sue for British, praise.
Slow are the steeds, that through Germania's roads
With hempen rein the slumbering post-boy goads;
Slow is the slumbering post-boy, who proceeds
Through deep sands floundering, on those tardy steeds;
More slow, more tedious, from his husky throat