Stout T-th-m stood aghast with puffy face,

“To arms!” cried Beverly,[56] and couch’d his quiv’ring mace.

II.

At a window, which on high

Frowns o’er the market place below,

With trousers[57] on, and haggard eye,

A member stood immersed in woe,

His tatter’d gown, and greasy hair,

Stream’d like a dishclout to the onion’d air.

And with a voice that well might beat the cryer,