As if we were not stocked with monsters of our own. }
Let Æsop answer, who has set to view
Such kinds as Greece and Phrygia never knew;
And mother Hubbard, in her homely dress,
Has sharply blamed a British lioness;
That queen, whose feast the factious rabble keep,
Exposed obscenely naked, and asleep.[184]
Led by those great examples, may not I
The wonted organs of their words supply?
If men transact like brutes, 'tis equal then