An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog

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Good people all, of every sort,Give ear unto my song;And if you find it wondrous short,   It cannot hold you long.     In Islington there lived a man,Of whom the world might say,That still a godly race he ran,   Whene'er he went   to pray.     A kind and gentle heart he had,To comfort friends and foes;The naked every day he clad,   When he put on   his clothes     And in that town a dog was found:As many dogs there be—  

Both mongrel,

 

puppy,

 

whelp,

and hound,

    And curs of low degree.   This dog and man at first were friends;   But, when a pique began, The dog, to gain some private ends,   Went mad, and bit the man.     Around from all   the neighbouring streets   The wondering neighbours ran;     And swore the dog had lost his wits,   To bite so good a man.   The wound it seem'd both sore and sadTo every christian eye;     And while they swore the dog was mad,   They swore the man would die But soon a wonder came to light,That show'd the rogues they lied—   The man recover'd of the bite;   The dog it was that died.  

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