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The Cat And Fiddle.
To The
Favourite Cat Of A Fiddling Miser.
by Henry Fielding
548997The Cat And Fiddle.
To The
Favourite Cat Of A Fiddling Miser.Henry Fielding

   THRICE happy cat, if, in thy A— House,
Thou luckily shouldst find a half-starv'd mouse;
The mice, that only for his music stay,
Are proofs that Orpheus did not better play.
Thou too, if danger could alarm thy fears,
Hast to this Orpheus strangely tied thy ears:
For oh! the fatal time will come, when he,
Prudent, will make his fiddle-strings of thee.

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