And now we will show in what sort of condition

Her grace, who is eighty, returned from this mission.

The shades of night were falling fast,

As up a Mayfair street there passed

A carriage with this strange device

As crest:—A rampant cockatrice

And enfant or.

Within was seen an agèd dame,

Whose breath in gasps most frequent came;

Her face was white as Death’s own hue,