LIV.

They are proud of this--as very well they may, It being a sort of knighthood, or gilt key Stuck in their loins;[525] or like to an "entré"[gx] Up the back stairs, or such free-masonry. I borrow my comparisons from clay, Being clay myself. Let not those spirits be Offended with such base low likenesses; We know their posts are nobler far than these.[gy]