So I thought, Why waste five hours trying to versify the incident?
"Something Else Again"
Franklin P. Adams
Gifted with an excellent memory, and a capacity for all the arts of peace and war; he was a perfect master of the use of arms and riding; very ready in the Latin and Greek tongues, both in verse and prose; and such was the facility he possessed in both, that he would harangue and versify extempore.
"Titus Flavius Vespasianus Augustus (Titus) The Lives Of The Twelve Caesars, Volume 11."
C. Suetonius Tranquillus
"Now Muse, you must versify your very best, To sing how they ransack the East and the West, To tell how they plunder the North and the South For food for the stomach and zest for the mouth!
"My Life as an Author"
Martin Farquhar Tupper