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The Eagle The Sow And The Cat

...re? 
Methinks, good Neighbour, you should live in Care: 
Since I, who bring not forth such dainty Bits, 
Tremble for my unpalatable Chits; 
And had I but foreseen, the Eagle's Bed 
Was in this fatal Tree to have been spread; 
I sooner wou'd have kitten'd in the Road, 
Than made this Place of Danger my abode. 
I heard her young Ones lately cry for Pig, 
And pity'd you, that were so near, and big. 
In Friendship this I secretly reveal, 
Lest Pettitoes shou'd make th' ensuing Me...Read more of this...
by Finch, Anne Kingsmill


The Medal

...to see an ass 
Mumbling to make the cross-grained thistles pass, 
Might laugh again to see a jury chaw 
The prickles of unpalatable law. 
The witnesses that, leech-like lived on blood, 
Sucking for them were med'cinally good; 
But when they fastened on their festered sore, 
Then justice and religion they forswore, 
Thus men are raised by factions and decried, 
And rogue and saint distinguished by their side; 
They rack even Scripture to confess their cause 
And plead a call t...Read more of this...
by Dryden, John

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