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XXVI

“I’ll pull the string,” said he, and further said,

“Polluted Jarvey! Ah, thou filthy hack!

Whose springs of life are all dried up and dead,

Whose linsey-woolsey lining hangs all slack,

Whose rug is straw, whose wholeness is a crack;

And evermore thy steps go clatter-clitter;

Whose glass once up can never be got back,

Who prov’st, with jolting arguments and bitter,

That ’tis of modern use to travel in a litter.