The merits of his tuneful Spartan pack.

Would I could echo it concerning mine!

Tut, tut! They're off again on their own line.

Come back, ye fools, come back!

I envy Theseus! Just the sort of hounds

For a true Tory huntsman; kept in bounds

By discipline none ventures to defy.

With such a pack I should be well content;

But some of mine are keen on a false scent,

And off on a wild cry.