The next in timely dash; in all the last
The force of nature could no further go,
To frame[54] the third she joined the other two.
Captain Rock.
Athenian quidnuncs when they wished to fill
Their ears with gossip hastened to Mars’ Hill;
Whilst Romans (ever destitute of humour)
Denounced it as the lying tongues of Rumour.
Wiser than either, modern wit, forsooth,