The Whore of Babylon left these brats behind,

Heirs of confusion by gavelkind.

I think Pythagoras' soul is rambled hither

With all the change of raiment on together.

Smec is her general wardrobe; she'll not dare

To think of him as of a thoroughfare.

He stops the gossiping dame; alone he is

40The purlieu of a metempsychosis;

Like a Scotch mark, where the more modest sense

Checks the loud phrase, and shrinks to thirteen pence: