Chapter 16 THE ROMAN FATHER

"If a dream should come in now to make you afear'd,

With a wind-mill on his head, and bells at his beard;

Would you straight wear your spectacles here at your toes,

And your boots on your brows, and your spurs on your nose?"

-Ben Jonson.

"No---he

With more than Roman fortitude is ever

First at the board in this unhappy process