PLAN, 193

“Good Hermes, only just one cabbage plant.”

“Stop, stop, my thieving traveller, you can n't.”

“What, grudge me one poor cabbage! is it so?”

“Nay, I do n't grudge it, but the law says no.

The law says, Keep your itching palms, d'ye see,

From meddling with another's property.”

“Well, this beats anything I ever saw!

Hermes against a thief invokes the law.”

Philippus.