"'But how to gain admission? for access
Is giv'n to none but Juba and her brothers.'

But, raillery apart, why access to Juba? For he was owned and
received as a lover neither by the father nor by the daughter.
Well, but let that pass. Syphax puts Sempronius out of pain
immediately; and, being a Numidian, abounding in wiles, supplies him
with a stratagem for admission that, I believe, is a nonpareil.

"'SYPH. Thou shalt have Juba's dress, and Juba's guards;
The doors will open when Numidia's prince
Seems to appear before them.'

"Sempronius is, it seems, to pass for Juba in full day at Cato's
house, where they were both so very well known, by having Juba's
dress and his guards; as if one of the Marshals of France could pass
for the Duke of Bavaria at noonday, at Versailles, by having his
dress and liveries. But how does Syphax pretend to help Sempronius
to young Juba's dress? Does he serve him in a double capacity, as
general and master of his wardrobe? But why Juba's guards? For the
devil of any guards has Juba appeared with yet. Well, though this
is a mighty politic invention, yet, methinks, they might have done
without it: for, since the advice that Syphax gave to Sempronius
was

"'To hurry her away by manly force,'

in my opinion the shortest and likeliest way of coming at the lady
was by demolishing, instead of putting on an impertinent disguise to