The Victims.

When Glo’ster, humpback’d Prince was young,

While yet on fostering breast he hung,

His mind being, like his body, made ill,

The Vices throng’d around his cradle;

Exulting, sneering, grinning, fighting,

They set his early teeth a biting;

By turns they taught the embrio King,

To roar and cry for everything;

Once, while he slept, and all were fired,