XI. 143

Pluto rejected at his gate

The soul of Mark the advocate;

"No, Cerberus my dog," quoth he,

"Will make you pleasant company;

But if within you needs must go,

Practise on poet Melito,

And you shall have, if he won't do,

Tityus and Ixion too.

You'll be to hell the sorest ill

Of all that hell contains, until

There come to us worse barbarisms

When Rufus speaks his solecisms."

_Lucillus._

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