I will lead him a dance he little thinks of----for I will gallop, quoth I, without looking once behind me, to the banks of the _Garonne_; and if I hear him clattering at my heels ----I'll scamper away to mount _Vesuvius_----from thence to _Joppa_, and from _Joppa_ to the world's end; where, if he follows me, I pray God he may break his neck----

I will lead him a dance - for I will gallop to the banks of the Garonne,' quoth I, 'and if I hear him clattering at my heels I'll scamper away to Mount Vesuvius, and from there to the world's end. If he follows me, I pray God he may break his neck.'
