You, Polly, honest Jack (an Irish House-dog), and Myself!"

(Here he pulled poor Poll's tail-feathers hard, and capered like an elf.)

Poll held on to his perch, he'd much tenacity of claw,

But performed, involuntarily a sort of sharp see-saw,

And he snorted and looked down

With a very beaky frown,

And his round orb grew as red as any carrot.

"'We Three'? your Twelfth-Night tag

Is mere thrasonic brag.

Tschutt! You'll make my tail a rag!