"Come tell me, Vagrant, in a breath,

Alcides' birth, his life, his death,

Recount his dozen labours:

Homer thou know'st—but of the woes

Of Troy, thou'rt ignorant as those

Dark Orange-boys, thy neighbours."

'Twas thus, erect, I deign'd to pour

My shower of lordly pity o'er

The poor Italian wittol,

As men are apt to do, to show