Her neck into his throat impure,
And so perform’d a desp’rate cure.
At which, when she desired her fee,
“You base, ungrateful minx,” says he,
“Whom I so kind forbore to kill,
And now, forsooth, you’d bring your bill!”
[IX.] THE HARE AND THE SPARROW.
Still to give cautions, as a friend,
And not one’s own affairs attend,
Is but impertinent and vain,