When ev’n your dregs have such a zest!”
They’ll see the drift of this my rhyme,
Who knew the author in his prime.
[II.] THE PANTHER AND SHEPHERDS.
Their scorn comes home to them again
Who treat the wretched with disdain.
A careless Panther long ago
Fell in a pit, which overthrow
The Shepherds all around alarm’d;
When some themselves with cudgels arm’d;