a drowned rat

That's right, declared Browning's companion. I was out stargazing last night. Looked at the Long-Handled Dipper a long time, and it gave me an awful thirst. I've had it with me all day. Yes, mine's ale.

Policewoman Mitchell was on the carpet only three weeks ago for appearing as a character witness for three burglary suspects.

... and which simultaneously reviles her as an adulteress and “witch”, but also appears to celebrate her “devilish”, Dionysian sexuality in a procession described as “un triunfo de faunalias” (H13; a triumph of faunic rites).