I dare say there was a vast amount of minuting, memoranduming, and dispatch-boxing, on this mighty subject.

The first favourite was never heard of, the second favourite was never seen after the distance post, all the ten-to-oners were in the rear, and a dark horse which had never been thought of, and which the careless St. James had never even observed in the list, rushed past the grand stand in sweeping triumph.

The idols represented the eons, divine emanations, and their origin was probably ophite – about which we know a thing or two at first hand.

Or euer sleepe his eye-strings did vntye [paraphrase] Or ever sleep his eye-strings did untie