 ... descends the long disgrace, And infamy hath mark'd our race. Though we, like harmless sheep, should feed, Honest in thought, in word, and deed, Whatever hen-roost is decreas'd, We shall be thought to share the feast. The change shall never be believ'd....  Critical, Historical, and Explanatory Notes on Shakespeare: With Emendations ... - Page 345by Zachary Grey - 1754 - 326 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Gay - Fables - 1728 - 218 pages
...thought to fhare the feaft. The change fhall never be believ'd, A loft good-name is ne'er retrieved. Nay then, replies the feeble fox, (But, hark! I hear...mod'rate in your food; A chicken too might do me good. • * T FABLE XXX. SETTING-DOG and the PARTRIDGE. *•'. HE ranging Dog the ftubble tries ? And fearches... | |
 | Complete fabulist - 1732 - 402 pages
...believ'd; A loft good-name is ne'er retriev'd. Nay then, replies the feeble Fox, (But hark ! I henr a hen that clocks) Go, but be mod'rate in your food ; A chicken too might do me good. xxxi. The SETTING-DOG and the PAKTRIDGK. THE ranging Dog the ftubble tries, And fcarches every breeze... | |
 | Zachary Grey - 1754 - 440 pages
...change fhall never be believ'd, " A loft good-name is ne'er retriev'd/-' *' Nay, then replies the feeWe fox, " (But hark ! I hear a hen that clocks^ • "...be mod'rate in your food, *' A chicken too might do file good. Sc. .^ftijpri"^ >. Hotfpur. Now Efreranza? Percy, 'And'fet oti.] " Efperance. Folio 1632'.... | |
 | John Gay - English poetry - 1770 - 204 pages
...thought to fhare the feaft. The change mall never be believ'd. A loft good name is ne'er retriev'd. Nay, then, replies the feeble Fox, (But hark ! I hear...mod'rate in your food ; A chicken too might do me good. FABLE FABLE XXX. The SETTING-DOG and the PARTRIDGE. THE ranging Dog the ftubble tries, And fearches... | |
 | John Gay - 1773 - 388 pages
...thought to mare the feaft. The change mall never be believ'd. A loft good name is ne'er retriev'd. Nay, then, replies the feeble Fox, (But hark ! I hear a hen that clocks) Vattene adunque, ' ma ti guarda ancora Di farne un pafto che fia moderato : Quella parte che vuoi prendi,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 312 pages
...thought to fhare the feaft. The change fhall never be belitv'd. A loft good name is ne'er retriev'd.'' " Nay, then, replies the feeble Fox, (But, hark! I hear a hen that clucks) Go; but be moderate in your food; A chicken, too, might do me good." FABLE XXX. THE SETTING-DOG... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 316 pages
...thought to mare the feaft. The change mall never be believ'd. 45 A loft good name is ne'er retriev'd." " Nay, then, replies the feeble Fox, (But, hark! I hear a hen that clucks) Go ; but be moderate in your food ; A chicken, too, might do me good." 50 FABLE FABLE XXX.... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - Conduct of life - 1791 - 510 pages
...be bciiev'd ; A loft good name is ne'er rctricv'd. Nay, then, replies the feeble Fox, (But iiark ! I hear a hen that clocks) Go, but be mod'rate in your food ; A chicken too might do me good. §165. FaikXXX. ?Iie Setting Dig and the Pailrii/gc. f-pHE ranging Dog the ftubble tries, L And fearchcs... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1791 - 966 pages
...thought to fliare the feaft. The change fliall never be believ'd ; A loft good name is ne'er retriev'd. fhrinc, 3o, but be moderate in your food; A chicken too might do me good. § 151. Fable XXX. The Setting Dog... | |
 | John Gay - Fables, English - 1792 - 250 pages
...thought to fhare the feaft. The charge mail never be believ'd, .A loft good name is ne'er retriev'd. Nay, then replies the feeble Fox, (But hark ! I hear...mod'rate in your food ; A Chicken too might do me good. The SETTiNoDoc and the PARTRIDGP. /~T^HE ranging Dog the ftubble tries, And fearches ev'ry breeze that... | |
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