And leave the Wolf for once behind.”

The Wolf, whose mouth began to water,

With joy and rapture gallop’d after,

When thus the Dog: “At bed and board,

I share the plenty of my lord;

From ev’ry guest I claim a fee,

Who court my lord by bribing me.

In mirth I revel all the day,

And many a game at romps I play:

I fetch and carry, leap o’er sticks,