Of puss, that, with verminicidal claw,

Struck the weird rat, in whose insatiate maw

Lay reeking malt, that erst in Juan’s courts we saw.

Robed in senescent garb, that seems, in sooth,

To long a prey to Chonos’ iron tooth,

Behold the man whose amorous lips incline

Full with young Eros’ osculative sign,

To the lorn maiden whose lactalbic hands

Drew albulactic wealth from lacteal glands

Of that immortal bovine, by whose horn