And curs of low degree.

Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog.

The dog, to gain his private ends,

Went mad, and bit the man.

Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog.

The man recovered of the bite,

The dog it was that died.[400:3]

Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog.

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A night-cap deck'd his brows instead of bay,—