One of these was the deliverance of Senapus, king of Ethiopia, from the visitation of the dreadful harpies of old, who came infesting his table as they did those of Æneas and Phineus.

The truth is, that my liquors bring a nest of friendly harpies about my house, who consume me.

With what frame or composure, I wonder, can a city chaplain pronounce his benediction at some great Hall feast, when he knows that his last concluding pious wordand that, in all probability, the sacred name which he preachesis but the signal for so many impatient harpies to commence their foul orgies, with as little sense of true thankfulness (which is temperance) as those Virgilian fowl!

For thy confusion, Thou ravenous harpy, with an angel's face, Thou art discovered, thou too charming rival; I'll be revenged upon those fatal eyes.

Let our simoniacal church-chopping patrons, and sacrilegious harpies, look for no better success.

And the event which one might most readily conjecture to have taken place through divine means was that a thunderbolt descended upon his dinner and consumed it all as it was being brought to him, like some tremendous harpy snatching away his food.