What words can express The dismay and distress Of Sir Guy, when he found what a terrible mess His cursing and banning had now got him into? That words, which to use are a shame and a sin too, Had thus on their speaker recoiled, and his malison Placed in the hands of the Devil's own "pal" his son!-- He sobb'd, and he sigh'd, And he scream'd, and he cried, And behaved like a man that is mad, or in liquor,--he Tore his peaked beard, and he dashed off his "Vicary,"[48] Stamped on the jasey, As though he were crazy, And staggering about just as if he were "hazy," Exclaimed, "Fifty pounds!" (a large sum in those times,) "To the person, whoever he may be, that climbs To that window above there, _en ogive_, and painted, And brings down my curly-wi'----" here Sir Guy fainted! With many a moan And many a groan, What with tweaks of the nose, and some _eau de Cologne_, He revived,--Reason once more remounted her throne, Or rather the instinct of Nature,--'twere treason To Her, in the Scroope's case, perhaps, to say Reason,-- But what saw he then?--Oh! my goodness! a sight Enough to have banished his reason outright! In that broad banquet hall The fiends, one and all, Regardless of shriek, and of squeak, and of squall, From one to another were tossing that small, Pretty, curly-wig'd boy, as if playing at ball: Yet none of his friends or his vassals might dare To fly to the rescue, or rush up the stair, And bring down in safety his curly-wig'd Heir!