FABLES. Fab. XXL Of the Dog and Thief, BOngh n>ougb,Who's there ? Bough tvougb, Who that dare break Into my Matter's Houfe ? firft ftanc^the Or eJfe I'll have you by the Throat; ne'r Hart You Sirj I'Jl know your Bufmefs e r we p.m. Thus in the Cy/c^Language, loud and brief. A true Dog bark'd., di/covering a Thief, When foftly thus Night's pilfering Minion /aid., This facred filence., and the holy made Of Night jdear friend^difturbnot: I am lent (Becaufe thy Mafter keeps a ftrickr Lent Than wifer Mortals} with a Sop to thee From W Cerberus ^t fuch fond Piety From triple Jaws exclaiming, he bids Eat. Wife Secfs3n>bo Nature fervejorfafye no Meat. Then take this Mor/el and lye down to Reft, Let not Fleas thee, nor others thou moJeft. When thus the faithful Dog reply'd agen : Haft thou thy habitation among Men, And know'ft not me ? Haft thou not heard how I Six Winter days^, and ftormy nights did lye Watching my muither'd Lord? his bleeding Head Three Spring-Tydes wanYd on a cold O/Ier bed; Atlaft with extream Hunger overcame, I to this houfe, through the broad R iver fwam Where well recruited, with warm Viands, then From hofpitable Boards, and living Men, I croft rougji Mountains with a filver Flead, To wait in open Manfions of rhe Dead. At Lift they follow ing me with fwifter Oars, Where by the Smell were found polluted Shores, They But when the Pricftefs on hi, nKk c