With twenty such diverting tricks.”

“’Tis pretty, faith,” the Wolf reply’d,

And on his neck the collar spy’d:

He starts, and without more ado,

He bids the abject wretch adieu:

“Enjoy your dainties, friend; to me

The noblest feast is liberty:

The famish’d Wolf, upon these desert plains,

Is happier than a fawning cur in chains.”