Sum requires a genitive case as often as it signifies possession, duty,
sign, or that which relates to any thing; as
Quod rapidam trahit Ætatem pecus est Melib[oe]i,
The cattle _wot_ drags the _Age_, fast coach, is Melib[oe]us's.
Alas! that such an Age should be banished by the Age of rail-roads!--
let us hear the