[XIV.] THE DOG AND THE LAMB.

A Dog bespoke a sucking Lamb,

That used a she-goat as her dam,

“You little fool, why, how you baa!

This goat is not your own mamma:”

Then pointed to a distant mead,

Where several sheep were put to feed.

“I ask not,” says the Lamb, “for her

Who had me first at Nature’s spur,

And bore me for a time about,