though the proud Cleopatra herself condescended to sue for one night's possession of the barn, old John took a couple of labourers with him, and while his wife was trimming the suppliant queen in her way, he demolished ' the cloud-capt towers and gorgeous palaces,' and turning the whole moveables into the yard, locked the door, and set off to the next justice of the peace, for the purpose of getting the whole set vagrantized.