Caput

 1 4 |     work of the spinners:~Kept their hearts intent, with his
 2 4 |        with his song beguiling their labor.~While beyond thought
 3 4 |       thought they rejoiced in their brother’s music, their hands
 4 4 |      in their brother’s music, their hands spun,~Busily twining
 5 5 |       equally Homeric: ~ There their city I wasted; the people
 6 10|    death before you understood their cases, or even listened
 7 12| pettifoggers were weeping, but their grief was plainly heartfelt.
 8 12|     lawyers were coming out of their hiding-places, pale and
 9 12|       the pettifoggers getting their heads together and lamenting
10 12|   heads together and lamenting their calamity, came up and said, “
11 12|        Gay-coated Medes turned their backs to disaster.~Conqueror
12 12|    Brigantes~Forced he to bend their necks to the fetters~That