Which Renard seized with greedy haste.
The grudging dupe now sees at last
That for her folly she must fast.
[XIV.] THE COBBLER TURNED DOCTOR.
A bankrupt Cobbler, poor and lean,
(No bungler e’er was half so mean)
Went to a foreign place, and there
Began his med’cines to prepare:
But one of more especial note
He call’d his sovereign antidote;