King Lear's Dogs <2* ^> <^- o 



(From A'ing Lear, Act III. Scene vi.) 



JSING LEAR. The little dogs and all, 



Tray, Blanch, and Sweet-heart, see, they 

 bark at me. 

 Edgar. Tom will throw his head at them. — 

 Avaunt, you curs ! 



Be thy mouth or black or white, 

 Tooth that poisons if it bite ; 

 Mastiff, grey-hound, mongrel grim, 

 Hound or spaniel, brach or lym ; 

 Or bobtail tike, or trundle tail, 

 Tom will make them weep and wail : 

 For, with throwing thus my head, 

 Dogs leap the hatch, and all are fled. 



William Shakespeare. 



Upon his Spaniell Tracie ■^ ^> ^>- 



TVT OW thou art dead, no eye shall ever see, 

 -*- ' For shape and service Spaniell like to thee. 

 This shall my love doe, give thy sad death one 

 Teare, that deserves of me a million. 



Robert Herrick. 



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