THE LION IN LOVE
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Though the Lion in love let them draw All his teeth, and pare down every claw, He’d no bride for his pains, For they beat out his brains Ere he set on his maiden a paw. |
OUR VERY MEANS MAY DEFEAT OUR ENDS
THE CAT AND VENUS
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“Might his Cat be a woman,” he said: Venus changed her: the couple were wed: But a mouse in her sight Metamorphosed her quite, And for bride, a cat found he instead. |
NATURE WILL OUT