[p8] The Monkey, so cunning, and full of his sport,
To show All his Talents came to this resort.
The Dog and Grimalkin[2] from service releas’d,
Expected good snacks, at the end of the feast:
The first at the gate, as a centinel stood;
The last kept the Rats and the Mice from the food.
The crowd of strange quadrupeds seen at the ball,
’Twere tedious and needless to mention them all;
To shorten the story, suffice it to say
Some scores, nay some hundreds, attended that day.—