The mouse-trap, or, The Welsh engagement with the mice.

  • Edward Holdsworth
Date:
1709
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The mouse-trap, or, The Welsh engagement with the mice. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    This laid, the gazing Croud around him prefs, And their Applaufe with loud Huzza’s exprefs ; But all with eager Expectation wait To learn from whence a Bleffing fhou’d proceed fo great. Scratching his Head, (by Weljh-men often done, A rare Expedient for Invention known) With awkard Snear he gap’d, and thus went on. No longer fince laft Night with Toil opprefs’d» Soon as I laid my weary Limbs to reft,., A daring Moufe, (as near as I can guels, Led thither by the fragrant Scent of Cheefey Which indigefted from my Mouth exhal’d, And the fly Mifcreant with its Steams regal’d) Into my Moutn did creep, hoping to meet With a rich Banquet in that clofe Retreat ^ But waking as the Moufe his Exit fought, Between my Teeth the nimble Thief I caught. InftruHed thus, my Friends, I don’t defpair forthwith fome cunning Engine to prepare That may juft fo our deadly Foe infnare. Oh wondrous ftrange! —■■— That mighty Jove fhould thus his Care heftow, And rule Events which do from fecond Caufesflow. This Moufe unknown has our Deliverance wrought At the lame time He our DeftruHion fought : And you, molt learned «S/>x, will not difdain Ev’n from a Foe Inftrudions to obtain. As foon as T^/f had finifh’d his Harangue^ Th’ applauding Populace about him hang, And to his Hpufe with noify Clamours lead, Wifhing fome great Ev’ent the Omen might fucceed. Each
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