The Salt, refresh’d by shaking up,

At night did with his master sup:

The Pepper, Tom assign’d his lot

With vinegar, and mustard pot:

A fop with bites and sharpers join’d,

And, to the side-board, well confin’d.

Fable XXIV.
The Sheep and the Bramble-Bush.

A thick-twisted brake in the time of a storm,