THE KNIGATS. 55

Bluster, seeing that it was all qver with him, took
it off with a pathetic farewell : —

“Farewell, my crown, farewell! I yield thee up
‘Unwilling. Some new lord shall wear thee now,
One not more thievish but more fortunate.”?

S.-s. “O Zeus of Hellas, thine the victory!”

And now it turned out that Demos had indeed
made a most fortunate choice in his new favourite.
The sausage-seller retired with his master, and after
a short interval appeared again, crying, “Silence!
Have done with your litigation; close the courts; I
bring good news.”

&n. “Oh, glory of Athens, the holy, and help of our island
: allies,
For what happy event, thro’ our streets, shall the
steam of our sacrifice rise?”
Sis. “I have given new youth to our Demos; I have
made him all lovely and fair.”
&An. “O deviser of wondrous devices, now where may we
see him, O where?”
Sis. “Tis the Athens of old where he dwelleth, the city
, with violets crowned.”
kn. “Oh, say how arrayed, with what aspect, henceforth
shall our Demos be found?”
S.-s. “You shall see him again in his beauty, as he was
when he sat at the board
Of old with the just Aristides and Miltiades, Mara-
thon’s lord.”

1A parody on the farewell which the dying Alcestis takes of her
marriage chamber.

Farewell; another wife shall own thee now, -
Some wife not purer but more fortunate.