Excerpt from The World and His Wife, or a Person of Consequence, Vol. 1

Horns, the execution of which was both witty and sentimental, for there was much point about the horns, and a great depth of sole about the boots, so that a poet, if poets (even small-beer poets) ever frequented alehouses, might have taken it for an allegorical tableau of Italy, between the horns of that social and political dilemma which seem ever to prevent her getting (except a propos de bottes) a proper footing among nations.

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