The old Hound. Fab. 21.
A Gentleman who kept a Hound,
One day by chance a Leveret found;
The fabulist metamorphosed and mytholigized, or, The fables of Esop translated out of Latine into English verse, and moralized, by R.A. ...
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The Dog with age was stiffe and lame,
And slowly doth pursue the game;
The Master gives ill words and blowes,
The toothlesse Hound no faster goes,
Yet all the speed he can he makes,
The Hare gets ground, the poore Cur slacks;
The huntsman following hard to bang him,
Swears, frets, and threatens streight to hang him.
The Dog, who all his youth had spent,
And hunted to the mans content;
Thus makes his moane before he dies:
(Sir) were you either just or wise,
You would remember service past,
Your owne youth cannot alwaies last:
Tis time to die, for now I see,
Servants no longer cherisht be,
Than when they trudge, and bring their Masters profit,
Adiew bad world, for I am weary of it.
Morall.
He that in youth doth serve his Masters turne,
Ought not in age be sleighted when he's done.