The Cat And Fiddle. To The Favourite Cat Of A Fiddling Miser

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.