ON RUFA.

Rúfa the Bolognese drains Rufule dry,

(Wife to Menenius) she 'mid tombs you'll spy,

The same a-snatching supper from the pyre

Following the bread-loaves rolling forth the fire

Till frapped by half-shaved body-burner's ire. 5

Rufa of Bononia lends her lips to Rufulus, she the wife of Menenius, whom

oft among the sepulchres ye have seen clutching her meal from the funeral

pile, when pursuing the bread which has rolled from the fire, whilst she

was being buffeted by a semi-shorn corpse-burner.

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