The third, how dull! regardless still,
What fate you prove, or good or ill.”
Appearance (treach’rous witness) here
Confirms the sounds that cheat his ear;
Suspicion soon alarm’d, and pride,
At once, to self the whole apply’d.
The Bull withdraws, resolv’d as due,
They first for his return should sue.
The Fox returns, and boasts his arts,
And to his liege the truth imparts: