The toll you levy for the shambles,

Yet, judging by the frills you wear

In this your most forlorn of gambles,

One might suppose you stood alone

In solitary splendour all your own.)

And if the game against you goes,

As seems, I take it, fairly certain,

The Hero, felled by countless foes,

Should make a rather useful curtain;

You could with honour cry for grace,