A noble swell was he:
‘Lo, I will stand at thy right hand,
And take a chop with thee!’
And out spake strong Herminius,
Heaver of coals was he:
‘I too will stay; and make them pay
The wonted half pennie!’”
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Horatius thus addresses the river:—
“Oh, Tiber, mister Tiber—