Carmen XLII (Cornish)

Hither from all sides, hendecasyllables, as many as there are of you, all of you as many as there are. An ugly drab thinks she may make fun of me, and says she will not give me back your tablets, if you can submit to that. Let us follow her, and demand them back again. You ask who she is? That one whom you see strutting with an ugly gait, grinning like a vulgar mountebank with the gape of a Cisalpine hound. Stand round her and call for them back again. " Dirty drab, give back the tablets, give back the tablets, dirty drab! " Don't you care a penny for that? O filth, O beastliness! or anything else that I can call you worse still! But we must not think this enough. Well, if nothing else can do it, let us force a blush from the brazen face of the beast: call out again with louder voice, " Dirty drab, give back the tablets, give back the tablets, dirty drab! 11 We get nothing by that: she does not mind. You must change your plan and method, if you can do better so—" Maiden modest and chaste, give back the tablets"