Studies in jocular literature

by William Carew Hazlitt

And a snail that bit a dog;

Thou hast well drunken, man:

Who’s the fool now?

“I see a mouse catch the cat,

Fie! man, fie!

I see a mouse catch the cat,

Who’s the fool now?

I see a mouse catch the cat,

And the cheese to eat the rat;

Thou hast well drunken, man: