FAVOURITE FALLES. 141

FABLE CHV.
THE CHAMELEON.

Ort has it been my lot to mark
A proud, conceited, talking spark,
With eyes that hardly served at most
To guard their master ’gainst a post;
Yet round the world the blade has been,
To see whatever could be seen.
Returning from his finish’d tour,
Grown ten times perter than before,
Whatever word you chance to drop,
The travelled fool your mouth will stop ;
“Sir, if my judgment you'll allow,—
I’ve seen,—and, sure, I ought to know;’’—
So begs you'd pay a due submission,
And acquiesce in his decision.

Two travellers, of such a cast,
As o’er Arabia’s wilds they pass’d,