To arm the Amazons against the Greeks,
OVIDIUS hints, proud manhood galls and piques.
No doubt; yet NASO did it in his day,
And we, in ours, who, sorely-pressed, would stay
The rising tide of Revolution, check
Disintegration, of the claws who'd peck
At our political sleeves and platform hearts
Must not be frightened.
"Rummiest of starts,"
The ribald Cockney cries; to see at length,