Was so changed in a moment, ’twas really absurd.
He grew sleek, and fat; In addition to that,
A fresh crop of feathers came thick as a mat!
His tail waggled more
Even than before;
But no longer it wagged with an impudent air,
No longer he perch’d on the Cardinal’s chair.
He hopp’d now about
With a gait devout;
At Matins, at Vespers, he never was out;