A surgical inspection of his tender foot allowed.
Androcles drew the splinter out; the lion joy expressed—
This ends the first part of my lay; Part II. contains the rest.
Part II.
There's tumult in the Forum, and the people onward press;
Androcles, now a criminal, is in a precious mess:
He's got to meet a lion, hungry, savage, and unchained;
And act Van Amburgh with a beast that never has been trained.
The Colosseum's rows are filled with citizens of mark—
Vespasian's amphitheatre, not the one in Regent's Park—