You had not felt the peacock’s bill;
Nor ’mongst the birds of your own dress
Had been deserted in distress.”
[IV.] THE DOG IN THE RIVER.
The churl that wants another’s fare
Deserves at least to lose his share.
As through the stream a Dog convey’d
A piece of meat, he spied his shade
In the clear mirror of the flood,
And thinking it was flesh and blood,