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The Hind and the Panther.
Let Æsop answer, who has set to view,
Such kinds as Greece and Phrygia never knew;
And mother Hubbard in her homely dress
Has sharply blam'd a British Lioness,
That Queen, whose feast the factious rabble keep,
Expos'd obscenely naked and a-sleep
Led by those great examples, may not I
The wanted organs of their words supply?
If men transact like brutes 'tis equal then
For brutes to claim the privilege of men.
Such kinds as Greece and Phrygia never knew;
And mother Hubbard in her homely dress
Has sharply blam'd a British Lioness,
That Queen, whose feast the factious rabble keep,
Expos'd obscenely naked and a-sleep
Led by those great examples, may not I
The wanted organs of their words supply?
If men transact like brutes 'tis equal then
For brutes to claim the privilege of men.
Others our Hind of folly will endite,
To entertain a dang'rous guest by night.
Let those remember that she cannot dye
Till rolling time is lost in round eternity;
Nor need she fear the Panther, though untam'd,
Because the Lyon's peace was now proclaim'd;
The wary salvage would not give offence,
To forfeit the protection of her Prince;
To entertain a dang'rous guest by night.
Let those remember that she cannot dye
Till rolling time is lost in round eternity;
Nor need she fear the Panther, though untam'd,
Because the Lyon's peace was now proclaim'd;
The wary salvage would not give offence,
To forfeit the protection of her Prince;
But
