No pickpockets or poetasters,
[27]. Sir Robert Walpole.
"Brutes never meet in bloody fray,
Nor cut each other's throats for pay."—p. 245.
Are known to honest quadrupeds:
No single brute his fellow leads.
Brutes never meet in bloody fray,
Nor cut each other's throats for pay.
Of beasts, it is confess'd, the ape
Comes nearest us in human shape: