Aboute the cat’s necke to hang on any[275] bell,
Had first neede to cut the cat’s clawes away,
Least if the cat bee curst, and[276] not tamed well,
She haply[277] with her nayles may clawe him to the fell:
So putting on[278] the bell about the cat’s necke,
By being to busy I caught a cruell checke.[279]
14.
Reade well the sentence of the rat of renowne,[280]
Which Pierce the plowman describes in his dreame,[281]
And who so hath wit the sence to expowne,[282]