The Ox is larger still, they say.
At length, with more and more ado,
She raged and puffed, and burst in two.
[XXV.] THE DOG AND THE CROCODILE.
Who give bad precepts to the wise,
And cautious men with guile advise,
Not only lose their toil and time,
But slip into sarcastic rhyme.
The dogs that are about the Nile,
Through terror of the Crocodile,