Ape's earnest,it is a pit that swallows whole nations, whole ages; and the extent to which it may be carried is wellnigh incredible, even with the fact before our eyes.

Thus as they them complayned too and fro, Whilst through the forest rechlesse they did goe, 950 [Rechlesse, reckless.] Lo! where they spide how in a gloomy glade The Lyon sleeping lay in secret shade, His crowne and scepter lying him beside, And having doft for heate his dreadfull hide: Which when they saw, the Ape was sore afrayde, 955 And would have fled with terror all dismayde.

How hard this is to reconcile with what Mr. Laing ascribes to dogs and ants elsewhere, or with what he says on page 173, "These higher apes remain creatures of very considerable intelligence....

Thus is this Ape become a shepheard swaine, And the false Foxe his dog: God give them paine!

Then Sniatynski writes: "That ape is now every day at Ploszow, keeping watch over the ladies, who, without that additional trouble, are worn to shadows.

An Ape is but a trivial beast, Men count it light and vain; But I would let them have their thoughts, To have my Ape again.

The ape, then, is not a man whose development is arrested.

"I knew that ape was an intolerable little prig of a peacock, but I didn't think she could be such a brute to you, Rosie!