Of thus-excruciated JONES;

BROWN's hand the same affliction owns.

At length his finger-tips have pressed

The fingers of his JONES distressed:

Both curvatures then sink to rest.

A sort of anguish lisped proceeds

Prom either's mouth, but neither heeds

The other's half-heroic deeds.

Exhausted, neither much can say;

Complacent, each pursues his way;