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;