Full of strange laws and musty precedents:

And so this forms a part. The volume shifts

Like change to clown or slipper’d pantaloon,

To subjects no one knows—from side to side

The eye may roll—the topics are too wide

To be embraced—and the loud public voice,

Turning again to childish treble, pipes

And whistles for its wants. Last scene of all,

That ends this strange mysterious catalogue,

Is perfect uselessness and mere oblivion,