Selected Letters by John Keats

Author:John Keats
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780141956909
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2014-10-29T16:00:00+00:00

End of Canto xii

Canto the xiii

The Mule no sooner saw himself alone

Than he prick[ed] up his Ears—and ‘said well done,

At least unhappy Prince I may be free—

No more a Princess shall side saddle me.

O king of Othaietè—tho a Mule

‘Aye every inch a king’—tho—‘Fortune’s fool’

Well done—for by what Mr Dwarfy said

I would not give a sixpenc[e] for her head’

Even as he spake ‘he trotted in high glee

To the knotty side of an old Pollard tree

And rub his sides against the mossed bark

Till his Girths burst and left him naked stark

Except his Bridle—how get rid of that

Buckled and tied with many a twist and plait

At last it struck him to pretend to sleep

And then the thievish Monkies down would creep

And filch the unpleasant trammels quite away

No sooner thought of than adown he lay

Sham’d a good snore—the Monkey-men descende[d]

And whom they thought to injure they befriended.

They hung his Bridle on a topmost bough

And of[f] he went run, trot, or any how—

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