CHAP. IV.

A prattling gossip, on whose tongue

Proof of perpetual motion hung,

Who with a hundred pair of eyes,

The vain attacks of sleep defies;

Who with a hundred pair of wings,

News from the farthest quarters brings,

Sees, hears, and tells, untold before,

All that she knows, and ten times more.

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