Ante, pudor, quam te violem, aut tua jure resolvam.
VIRGIL.
I have years on my back forty-eight,
SHAKSPEARE'S King Lear.
Four-and-twenty lap-dogs, all of a row,
Four-and-twenty monkeys, kits, and cats, dit-to;
Four-and-twenty colours in her tawdry dress,
(A rainbow she in all—but its loveliness!)
Four-and-twenty tempers, in the four-and-twenty hours;
Four-and-twenty dreams of suppos'd vanquished pow'rs,